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To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
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Subject: Re: 951026-SNAP and 4megs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 95 22:11:29 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 05:00:51 -0700
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>On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>> > well...  I just thought you guys would like to know... I pulled 4megs of 
>> > ram out of a 8meg machine to test it... even though I read the message 
>> > about it failing on his machine...  and it worked on my machine...  right 
>> > now I am testing it on my laptop and it reports 639/3328k... and the 
>> > install screen came up... so it looks like 4meg does work...
>> 
>> Huh!  Great..  So now I can tell people: "It *might* work in 4MB."
>> Why couldn't it have just fallen over on your machine, like everyone
>> else's? :-)
>
>sorry :)...  also... on my 8meg machine the ram reported was 
>640/3456k...  just for the record...  also...  we could say just disable 

   Hmmm, I think your 8MB machine has problems. Does the BIOS report 8MB
during it's memory test?

-DG