'386 Unix Wars

[Larry Snyder]

bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>In article <1990Dec20.233843.28559 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>
>>My beef is that I can only put 12 megs in my machine without causing
>>problems with the multiport boards (which I can't seem to get to work
>>below 1 megabyte)..
>>

>Why is this?  Does this mean (do you think?) that if I up my machine to
>16MB, my AST 4-port board will not work?

your board shouldn't effect you being able to install 16 megs - my
problem relates to the address that the board requires for proper
operation.  Computone in their wisdom designed a board which requires
256k to run - even through they only have 128K on the board.  I don't
have 256k free below 1 megabyte.  I've went round and round with 
Computone tech support without any success.  The board runs fine 
at it's current address (14 megs) - I wonder if I could place it
just shy of 16 megs (16 megs - 256k) and if ISC Unix 2.20 would
use all that memory (up to 16 megs - 256k)?

I usually have 4 users on my machine downloading (we all know
very few BBS users actually upload), 1 X session (with 6 applications),
complete news processing for 15-18 machines (of 1100+ newsgroups),
plus a couple of telnet sessions - and I really could use more memory.

Plus - I plan on opening up shell access on nstar.rn.com - then
users will have access to word perfect, and all the other utilities
and tools which consume memory (like the compilers and such)..

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