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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 Memory question (simms)
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Date: 30 May 90 22:08:21 GMT
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In article <7374@fy.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
|In article <3873@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
|
|>That is why you can put 2MB at a time into SX machines,
|>but must put 4MB into a DX.  Or 512KB or 1MB if you're using 256K SIMMs.
|
|Unless of course your board manufacturer changes the rules via its own
|implementation.  My Mylex board (with DX) can be configured as 1,2,4, or 8 Mb
|using 256K, 256K, 1Mb, 1Mb, simms respectively.  No other combinations are

Kaleb is more right than you are. When he says you must put 4 MB into a
DX, he meant when using 1 Mb SIMMs. He forgot about machines with
8 SIMM slots, but your machine still has a minimum of 4 megs with
1 meg SIMMs.

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