Hello Mick!
Friday February 27 1998 06:52, Mick Howe wrote to Jonathan Michaels:
 -=>> Quoting Jonathan Michaels to Mick Howe <=-
 JM>> i know that freebsd can handle the isa bus and over 16 meg
 JM>> of dram, how does os/2 'cope' with that sort of a setup. i
 JM>> am assuming that your 486dx4/74 is isa and not local bus ..
 JM>> i have a local bus'd 486dx33 that i could (would) put more
 JM>> memory in if i could be certain of the results .. if you
 JM>> get the drift.
 MH > The DX4 had two VLB slots, one with video card -Trident 9440. I
 MH > ran it with up to 16 meg and it ran fine, tried it once with 32
 MH > and it was great.
looks like i start pulling machines apart and reconfiguring my local 
thernet,
looks like its time to start investigating subneting and multiple nics on the
bust .. should improve network throughput .. lots of interesting things to
think about.
chomp....
 MH > Yes I do do 33k6 and can usually maintain 12mb/hour. As I have
 MH > recently rebuilt the BBS after trashing a HDD and haven't
 MH > received any freqs since please let me know if you have any
 MH > problems.
ouch that must have hurt .. i recently lost a monitor, it nearly sent me to 
the
wall .. i was given a fire damaged on as a replacement .. not as good as the
4d, but it works. laso the smoke and water paternsd make for an intersting 
case
design .. grin.
 JM>> has changed my calling habits) $3 std all over australia
 JM>> call.
 MH > watch out for this, the deal was supposed to run out at the end
 MH > of Nov, I thought.
yes, it seems to be holding and i ring 012 regularly to keep asking if the
tarif still applies. so far so good.
with thanks,
cheers
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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