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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: EISA and memory > 16 MB
Keywords: EISA
Message-ID: <3412@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 20:10:14 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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I looked in the FAQ, and didn't see answers to the following questions:

Which R 3.2 or R 4.0 vendors support EISA devices (e.g. disks)?  Anyone?

Which R 3.2 or R 4.0 vendors support memory > 16 MB?  I know there was
a discussion of this related to someone, maybe Dell, and something, like
whether others' UNIXes couldn't go over 16 MB due to DMA requirements
(paging?), but I don't know what the overall situation is for ESIX, ISC,
etc.

For reference, I am going with the ALR BusinessVEISA, a truly lovely
machine at an amazing price, and am wondering whether UNIX could hack
it if I popped in 12 of those 4 MB SIMMS and took it all the way up
to 49 MB...
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