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Re: Linux/Solaris/Windows on Notebook



On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Malcolm Kavalsky wrote:

> I had an extreme degradation in performance when adding memory above 16Mb
> on a machine here at work. (I added another 8mb ontop of 16 mb, and the system
> would slow to a crawl at certain periods). The machine I had was 486-66Mhz,
> with adaptec scsi disk (on AT bus) , s3 video card. Someone explained to
> me that this was due to the AT bus only able to access 16Mb address range, thus

I believe you will see that the cache on board will make the differance. 
256K which is the common standard on most Pentiums (e.g. Zappa) is 
optimized for 16 MB, barable with 32, and impossible for 64. my next 
board will have to include cache-on-a-stick expansion...


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