From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 18 11: 5:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (dsl092-188-241.sfo2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.188.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D7437B416 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from tenebras.com (laptop [66.92.188.18]) by sapphire.tenebras.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0IJ5Bo02007; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:05:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Message-ID: <3C4871E7.BB2D1DEA@tenebras.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:05:11 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Penna Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Eugene Grosbein , "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Gregory Bond , Steve Wills , Wilko Bulte , John Utz , "David W. Chapman Jr." Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020118130619.01d954f0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Penna wrote: > To Michael Sierchio, Gregory Bond, Wilko Bulte, John Utz, David Chapman and > others who commented on memory pricing and availability: > > All valid points. In addition to the situation where you're using very old > hardware that takes 30-pin SIMMs (which are now pretty hard to find, unless > you want 512K or smaller modules :P ), there are some machines that simply > cannot take large amounts of memory, even if you are able to find the > hardware. I have several 16MB SIMMS that you're welcome to have ;-) Also probably a closet full of 1MB SIMMS, right next to the pile of sub-1GB IDE drives ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message