From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 07:04:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA26112 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 07:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from siegfried.utmb.edu (FTP.scms.utmb.edu [129.109.59.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA26102 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 07:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from beowulf.utmb.EDU (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by siegfried.utmb.edu (8.5/8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18471; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:00:29 -0600 Received: by beowulf.utmb.EDU (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA09852; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:01:00 -0600 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:01:00 -0600 From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Message-Id: <199702251501.JAA09852@beowulf.utmb.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org, andrew@python.shoal.net.au Subject: Re: Adding memory slows down 486 to less than 386SX! X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Unfortunately, in this case there is no employer for me to convince ;-( I'm it! (And, in any case, this machine is mainly used by my wife and daughter to run Win95. I'm going for a Pentium myself, as soon as the taxes are covered ;-) Bud Dodson > > I had a very similar problem with a 486DX33, I upgraded from 8 1MB simms > (30 pin) to 4 4MB simms and the machine slowed down to a crawl straight > away. :( Fortunately I managed to convince my employer that these 30 pins > simms were "old hat" and it would be more cost/performance effective to > buy me a pentium 100 with 16MB ram (72 pin simms) :-) > > Andrew Perry > andrew@shoal.net.au > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790