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To: TechJunkYard

16MB of RAM in 1983? Wow.
My Pentium 75 in 1994 only had 8MB that I upgraded to 16MB initially and then later to the maximum 96MB. It is now in the basement next to the others. I last used it in 2002 and had it overclocked to 100MHz. It had debian linux with a 2.2 kernel, command line only, running dnetc. It also had a whopping 850MB hard drive, 4X CDROM, 14.4K Modem/Soundcard and a 1MB Cirrus Logic Video on the motherboard. I had it temporarily upgraded to a 333MHz K6-2 upgrade S7/S5 conversion kit with a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, 4x CDR, 10GB HDD and 56k USRobotics modem. All those parts are broken now or long gone. The original still boots last I checked.


20 posted on 08/12/2006 3:53:07 PM PDT by ezsmoke (http://www.freebsd.org/)
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To: ezsmoke; TechJunkYard
He didn't have 16MB of RAM in 1983! I'm sure he meant to say 16KB. There wasn't even a home OS (or processor with sufficient address lines) in 1983 that would have known what to do with 16MB.
25 posted on 08/14/2006 7:53:40 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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