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- From: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.063440.28863@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 06:34:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug28.063440.28863
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- >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.)
-
- Strange, my PC has a memory limit of 4GB without any of the expanded et al.
- BS. You Should check out the PC world, much has and is happening (the
- great thing about competition).
-
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- Carl W. Price * * Work keeps us from three evils: *
- Computer Engineering Student * * boredom, vice, and need. *
- Oregon State University * * *
- pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu * * ---Voltaire *
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