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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:16:56 GMT
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- In <92240.131648ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
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- >But gigabytes of RAM ??? Let me quote from my IIsi manual:
- >"Speicher: 3MB RAM, erweiterbar auf 17MB" which means the maximum is 0.017GB.
- >That sure _is_ gigabytes but not very many of them :-)
-
- See, that's what you get for reading documentation! The IIsi has
- 1M of RAM soldered to the motherboard and 4 SIMM slots. That allows
- it to have 5M of RAM using 1M SIMMs or 17M of RAM using 4M SIMMs.
- But using 16M SIMMs, it can have 65M of RAM. If that is not enough,
- you can add additional RAM on a nubus card, and *all* of that memory
- is directly addressable -- no expanded/extended/upper memory nonsense.
- The operating system's memory limit is something like 4 gigabytes --
- not a number I keep in my head, since I am unlikely to be able to
- afford that much memory anytime soon. I have 17M of physical RAM
- in my IIsi, and usually run with 34M of virtual memory. 17M is not
- the memory limit. (And even if it was, that would still sound good
- compared to the PC's 640K barrier.)
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