jching@watnow.waterloo.edu (John Y. Ching) (01/19/91)
I am in the process of selecting a 386-33 clone. I have the following
questions about the motherboard design of various venders:
1) What's better, boards that use chip sets (eg. C&T) or discrete logic?
2) If I buy a 386-33 with a motherboard that has 16 MB (maximum) on board
but does NOT have a 32-bit slot for additional memory upgrade, am I
limiting my upgrade path too much? Is there any real need for more
than 16 MB for a 80386-based machine, ever?
Thanks.
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Department of Systems Design Engineering | Thought is Dangerous."scott@skypod.uucp (Scott Campbell) (01/21/91)
In article <1991Jan18.193434.12891@watserv1.waterloo.edu> jching@watnow.waterloo.edu (John Y. Ching) writes: >I am in the process of selecting a 386-33 clone. I have the following >questions about the motherboard design of various venders: >2) If I buy a 386-33 with a motherboard that has 16 MB (maximum) on board > but does NOT have a 32-bit slot for additional memory upgrade, am I > limiting my upgrade path too much? Is there any real need for more > than 16 MB for a 80386-based machine, ever? > Not if all you are going to do is run DOS... certainly if you plan on running UNIX or OS/2, you will be able to use more than 16 megs... the more the merrier... With 4 Meg chips available now and 64M chips "right around the corner", I think we are about to enter a new age in memory availabilty... Wow.. and to think that my good ol' Trash-80 came with 4 (count 'em) K and was upgradable to (oooooohh!) 48K :-) Of course with DOS, 16 Megs becomes 640K conventional memory and a 15.5M ramdisk :-)))) scott -- Scott J.M. Campbell scott@skypod.uucp Skypod Communications Inc. ..!uunet!scocan!skypod!scott 57 Charles St. West, #1310 ..!uunet!utai!lsuc!becker!skypod!scott Toronto, Ont. (416) 961-3847 ..!epas.utoronto.ca!nyama!skypod!scott
wendy@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Wendy Wilhelm) (01/23/91)
In article <1991Jan18.193434.12891@watserv1.waterloo.edu> jching@watnow.waterloo.edu (John Y. Ching) writes: >2) If I buy a 386-33 with a motherboard that has 16 MB (maximum) on board > but does NOT have a 32-bit slot for additional memory upgrade, am I > limiting my upgrade path too much? Is there any real need for more > than 16 MB for a 80386-based machine, ever? We have two 80386-based machines with 24 MB (Soon to be 40) and 12 MB (Soon to be 24) that we use all the time... No, you don't really need this much memory unless you're running Unix with/or lots of emacs ;(... However, we use these little boxes as Xterminal Servers and they need all the memory we can give 'em. Wendy +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Wendy Wilhelm | |Portland State University | |Portland Center for Advanced Technology | |LOCAL: wendy | |INTERNET: wendy%{cs,ee}.pdx.edu | |UUCP:{ucbvax,uunet,gatech}!tektronix!pdxgate!{ee,cs}.pdx.edu!wendy | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DeVries's Dilemma: | | If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't | | want hits the paper. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+