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Subject: Re: ATA on a Cabriolet?
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At 2002-11-22T20:26:23Z, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:

> Eh.. yes, they are not particularly fast. How much memory does it have?  I
> consider 64MB as a minimum for being useful. Below 32M really makes it
> SLOOOW. :)

I was incredibly lucky.  I found a matched set of 8 true parity 32MB SIMMs
on eBay for $59.00.  ARC's memtest function passed them with flying colors,
so the system has never touched the 512MB of swap.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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