Re: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian on 486)
Hi!
I'm also a 386etc. fan and I can tell you that in fact many stores still
sell 4MB simm (=30pin) modules (at least here in Germany), so that quite
every old machine (if it has four or eight slots) can be upgraded to 16 or
32 MB of RAM. Sometimes you can also get these modules for a very cheap
price at a second-hand market.
Regards,
Stephan Hachinger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rogerio Brito" <rbrito@iname.com>
To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:28 AM
Subject: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian
on 486)
> On Aug 13 2000, s. keeling wrote:
> > RAM tends to help more than upgrading to a faster processor would.
>
> Indeed. Really. The chance to avoid swaps is incredible. The
> only problem is that not all older boards support that much of
> RAM (and not all of them support even 72-way memory chips;
> my 486DX33 only supports RAM chips with 30-connectors -- don't
> know what these chips are called).
>
> []s desperately looking for upgrading the 8MB to 16MB, Roger...
>
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