Anyone using an Intel AboveBoard MC on a Model 80?
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 16:54:35 CDT 2008
Josh Dersch wrote:
>> 4. You are correct that these older machines have hard 16MB
>> limitations due to DMA limited to 24bits I think (same as 286) that as
>> far as I know.
>>
>>
> Yeah, that's what I read. I don't know what issues that will cause for
> operating systems running with more than 16mb installed. I guess I'll
> find out if I can get this to run at all :).
I am running a Model 80-061 with many (4?) IBM 80386 XMAs and the
machine is perfectly stable running Linux with 46MB RAM. If I had an
80-Axx (which I would love to get, for the cache), it would be 48MB.
Peace... Sridhar
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