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From: fer@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fernando guzman)
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Subject: Re: extendet memory
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Date: 23 Feb 90 17:41:31 GMT
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In article <8987@wpi.wpi.edu> ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
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>I have seen some cheap 286 clones which, when you have a Meg of ram installed,
>will allow you to have 512k base + 512k extended or 640k base + 0 extended. 
>Thus, if you use the second configuration, you waste 384k of perfectly good
>memory, and there is no way you can get at it.  It may be that the 386 board

The Packard-Bell PB286 is one of these. Shame on P-B.  You either waste 384k of
memory, or limit yourself to 512k of base, and lock yourself out of many nice
programs.

Fernando