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- From: data@cs1.bradley.edu (Mark Hall)
- Subject: Re: Minimum requirements for linux - just to run single user
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- References: <data.715303501@cs1.bradley.edu> <1992Sep1.135811@tiger1.prime.com> <data.715428938@cs1.bradley.edu> <1992Sep2.141634@tiger1.prime.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 23:55:38 GMT
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- In <1992Sep2.141634@tiger1.prime.com> cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings) writes:
-
- >> No. I have NO extended. Just conventional 640 K. Really sucks.
-
- >Bummer. Sounds like a 286 (or 8088) motherboard minimally extended to support
- >a 386 running DOS, period. How bogus! (Don't feel too bad, I GAVE my 16MHz
- >386 to my Dad because it would have cost me $800 to upgrade from 1MB to 4MB
- >of memory (with NO chance of ever upgrading beyond that. Instead I bought my
- >25MHz motherboard for $1300 (with 4MB of ram!). Then memory prices started to
- >fall.)
-
- Nope. It's designed as a 80386. It just has a 1MB memory board that came
- standard, and for some reason won't go over 640 K. :( The mother board is
- just a "bus" (little tiny wheels too :) and everything plugs in as a card, the
- CPU, the Memory, Display card, I/O card...etc.
-
- >> Not sure what my chips are. I'll probably just buy a 32bit expansion card.
- >> There's no room on the motherboard for expansion (my motherboard is just a
- >> bus) and the memory is a card...Stupid...Same for Processors, and I/O stuff.
-
- >Sounds a lot like my old S-100 machine B^).
-
- Ouch! :)
-
- >Ted's message says there might be hope if you had as little as 384K of extended
- >memory. Sounds like you're SOL. Sorry.
-
- Yeah..
-
- >> Probably. Couldn't be worse than on our AT&T 3b2 (ugh! :)
-
- >Oh yeah, I've heard of those machines! There the ones that ran out of clock bits
- >for the year in 1992! Great foresight in hardware design!
-
- Actually, I believe that was the PC 6300. The PC 6300 caused quite a stink
- last year as computing services here at Bradley was scrambling to get things
- fixed. It was/is the standard PC for most of the faculty/staff, etc. Most
- stuff I believe is run off the mainframes now (sparcs, etc).
-
- I don't recall hearing about that problem with the 3b2.
-
- Mark
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