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From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas
Message-ID: <1902@atari.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 00:17:00 GMT
References: <25126@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA.
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in article <25126@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com says:
>  
> Consider that the *cheapest* IBM clone board comes *socketed* for easy memory
> expansion to the maximum RAM the system can utilize...

However, the *cheapest* IBM clone still only knows about 640K of memory
max (8086 based here).  Without an *EXPENSIVE* memory board in one of the
card slots and some driver software 640K is all you'll ever get to use.


Of course even on a 80286 computer w/ say 10Megs of RAM MS-DOS still sees
only 640K (we tested one under windows once for memory use)...


Dan