Need more memory, can't find board

Dr. Orville R. Weyrich orville at uunet.uu.net!weyrich
Fri Jan 4 20:47:00 AEST 1991


I have a 16 MHz Micronics MB which currently is maxed out at 2MB of memory.
Needless to say, my Unix system is kind of sluggish.

My hardware is obsolete (already!!!), and I can't seem to find the proper
extension board for my 32-bit bus memory card (see my post in misc.wanted
for an exact description of what I need).

MY QUESTION IS THIS:

Does anyone have any experience with putting some kind of memory expansion
card in a 16-bit slot to expand beyond the amount of 32-bit slot memory
installled?  (yes, I realize that using the 16 bit bus would be less efficient
than using the 32-bit bus, but I expect that it would be significantly better
than nothing).

Will Unix work properly on such patch-work hardware? (specifically,
Microport System V/386 rev 3 with DOS-MERGE). I am concerned about timing
errors and such.

Thanks for the help,

Orville R. Weyrich, Jr.

uunet!weyrich!orville

orville%weyrich at uunet.uu.net

(602) 391-0821



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