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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Does it solve the 16M problem Message-ID: <g89r4222.747480143@kudu> Date: 8 Sep 93 09:22:23 GMT Article-I.D.: kudu.g89r4222.747480143 References: <g89r4222.747163756@kudu> <26itba$eaj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 29 In <26itba$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. -- ============================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za=============================== Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, |#define DISCLAIMER These are my Computer Science Department, | ramblings, not the Rhodes University, RSA. | University's