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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading RAM
Date: 21 Jun 1995 10:46:21 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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One Vision <reeber@pilot.njin.net> wrote:
> I've got a 486 machine that currently has 6 megs of RAM. I plan to
>upgrade it so that it'll have 18 megs total RAM.
If you've got an ISA busmastering DMA controller (e.g. an intelligent
SCSI controller), limit yourself to 16 MB. The additional 2 MB won't
gain you very much, but will require the use of bounce buffers (since
the ISA bus can only address 16 MB).
Sorry, i cannot answer your question to the cache with profound
knowledge, but i would suspect that an upgrade from 6 to 16 MB will be
a gain in any case.
>PS: WhICh IS B3ttER, FrEEBsD, NeTBSD, Or LiNuX? i WaNt t0 Kn0!
FReeNeTlUx
:-)
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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