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From: py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung)
Subject: Re: SIMM chips in a PS2/30--upgradeable?
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.231602.23506@meadow.uucp>
Reply-To: py@meadow.UUCP (Peter Yeung)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
References: <1990Nov19.221638.15219@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 23:16:02 GMT

In article <1990Nov19.221638.15219@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham) writes:
>Hello world,
>motherboard? can this be done and have the computer work? will it recognize
> the extra memory?  i friend told me that 8088 cannot access anything beyond 1
>MB, is this true?

Your friend was right. There is no point in increasing the memory on the 
motherboard to >1Meg (I doubt you can do it though). The only extra memory
that can be used by 8088 based boxes is EMS (or LIM) which requires a special
memory card.

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Peter Yeung     Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
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