Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Cc: joed@engg.ksu.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding additional memory banks Message-ID: <199601091351.IAA25757@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199601091024.LAA26067@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 9, 96 11:24:12 am
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> I don't think you can add _real_ memory (not EMM or something like > this) with an ISA board. You need some sort of a ``local bus'' for > it, most ISA boards i've seen with such a thing had something like > a reverse ISA slot designed for a proprietary memory expansion. No, you can do this. Obviously < 16MB of RAM. I have a 12MB 386SX-16 with 8MB on a Boca Ram-AT board that booted 386BSD. Don't ask me to give you "make world" times, but I did play around with 386BSD 0.1 on it for a while before buying a system to run 386BSD. > The ISA bus itself is IMHO too slow. No argument here. I think Joe should look at buying a new motherboard that supports his SIMMS directly. The price will probably be close - if he is considering this ISA option I assume it is a low performance system. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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