Mike Chambers
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browsing around ebay, i was looking at 8-bit ISA memory expansion and came across this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Panasonic-Matsu...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5627caf931
caught my eye because i'm only a 30 minute drive from the seller, and he says if i want it i can just get it in person. (im guessing the 386 KB is a typo and he meant 384)
would this work in my BMI XT clone? the mobo is loaded with 640 KB. i know an 8088 can address 1 MB of real-mode RAM, but how exactly does the system know if i've upgraded it? are there switches to tell it there is 1 MB? (iirc, the switches allow you to select up to 640 KB)
i've never had to chance to get my hands on a RAM expansion card before, so i'm a bit uninformed on the subject. my goal here is to have 1 MB so that i can actually do something useful with MINIX 2 on the system. with 640 KB, you can't do much. i can log in remotely via telnet and run vi. anything else and it runs out of memory.
with 1 MB, i'll be able to run an httpd, ftpd, and many other fun little toys.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Panasonic-Matsu...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5627caf931
caught my eye because i'm only a 30 minute drive from the seller, and he says if i want it i can just get it in person. (im guessing the 386 KB is a typo and he meant 384)
would this work in my BMI XT clone? the mobo is loaded with 640 KB. i know an 8088 can address 1 MB of real-mode RAM, but how exactly does the system know if i've upgraded it? are there switches to tell it there is 1 MB? (iirc, the switches allow you to select up to 640 KB)
i've never had to chance to get my hands on a RAM expansion card before, so i'm a bit uninformed on the subject. my goal here is to have 1 MB so that i can actually do something useful with MINIX 2 on the system. with 640 KB, you can't do much. i can log in remotely via telnet and run vi. anything else and it runs out of memory.
with 1 MB, i'll be able to run an httpd, ftpd, and many other fun little toys.