On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Mouse wrote:
Which i486 boards are you aware of that support 64MB of cachable ram?
Oh, this wasn't a 486. I don't recall what it was. Probably somewhere
in the PII or PIII range; I think I can find the machine and check if
anyone cares.
Any PII and PIII will support at a minimum 512MB of ram (even the consumer
chipsets), but as long as you have swap, 32MB or 64MB would probably work.
It's when you are running the entire OS from media such as CompactFlash or
SD card where you don't have swap that having less memory can become a
challenge with modern software (no X, gui, etc). As cheap as second hand
SDRAM modules are though, adding more memory is the easiest solution.
Njaa, my mother's Dell Dimension machine from 1997 only supports 384 M
(3 memory module slots) IF you can get hold of some a bit unusual 128M
memory modules.
Dell sold them with 1 or 2 64M modules :-( .
ONe other method is to upgrade the BIOS-after that the MB is a bit more
lenient on the memory module particulars...
Cheap PC sort but Dell still sold them as a workstation, what a way of
devaluation of that word.