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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Please help with memory expansion for 80286 machine
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.203840.6530@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 Sep 90 20:38:40 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.002351.20034@morrow.stanford.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <1990Sep17.002351.20034@morrow.stanford.edu> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>I want to buy an extra 2MB of RAM for my (80286 based) Epson Equity
>II+ computer, for as little as possible ($200 or less, if possible).
>I want to use the extra memory as a RAM disk, cache, and sometimes
>for applications that can use expanded or extended memory directly.

What I've been suggesting to people wanting to upgrade their memory in
286 boards that only hold one meg is, don't.  You can buy 386sx boards
that hold 4 meg for as little as $350-$400.  Your memory board for the
286 will cost about half that.  So for another $200 or so, you can have
yourself a 386sx that doesn't need a memory board.  You'll get a faster
machine, and of course a 386 processor which will allow you to do quite
abit more with all that extended memory other than just ram disks and
ram caches.   

Charles