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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Does it solve the 16M problem
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Date: 8 Sep 93 09:22:23 GMT
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In <26itba$eaj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In short, the answer I tell everyone is that if you need more than 16MB,
>get an architecture that can do it (EISA), or buy BSDI. :-)

>If you NEED more than 16MB on an ISA bus, you are already in trouble,
>so why not spend the extra $$ and buy an EISA machine with EISA
>cards.  
Nate, no offense intended, but if you have to deal with hardware
that is placed in front of you, and you cannot decide what gets
bought because it is already there, you can't always choose about buying
an EISA mothrboard.
While I don't really need the extra RAM, it would be nice to be
able to get some of the machines here up to 20M, since the RAM is
still available (it doesn't have to be bought).
There are lots of people running *BSD on hardware which has been
scraped together in some way or another, and they don't have the
choice of buying fancy motherboards and whatnot, although they
might have things like extra RAM available.

(Possibly we have a different set of problems to what you have in
the US.)

Geoff.
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