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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Memory Capacity
Message-ID: <21790@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 May 91 12:43:55 GMT
References: <9647@cognos.UUCP> <1991May21.180611.19520@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991May21.180611.19520@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> bradc@cognos.UUCP (Brad Cameron) writes:
> 
> >Is there any way to expand 386 machines to more than 16MB, not
> >necessarily just PS/2's, 

Many 386 machines allow for > than 16MB.  They do so by means of 32-bit memory
slots.
> 
> *Any* EISA bus machine should be capable of this. 
> 
> We've got a Compaq SystemPro with 40 meg of RAM. It's a file server,
> but we ran a few tests before installing Netware.
> 
> An awful lot of software freaks when you have more than 16 meg of RAM.
> We couldn't get Windows 3 to run until we installed a 24 meg RAMdisk
> in config.sys...

That's interesting.  I have run > 16MB with Windows 3 (enhanced) many times.




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