Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty] | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:43:28 -0400 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Dax Kelson <dkelson@inconnect.com>; alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>; acahalan@cs.uml.edu <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>; andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si <andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 5:25 AM Subject: Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]
>On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > > Linux should run passably on the lowest common denominator machine for >> > > the majority of its userbase. That is an 8Mb 486. If you think everyone >> > > can afford 32Mbytes I suggest you pay a visit to a local UK university, >> > > pop out into the poor parts of europe or south america. >> > >> > Memory has gotten insanely cheap lately. >> > >> > $14 for 16MB SIMM >> > $26 for 32MB SIMM >> > $127 for 128MB DIMM >> >> They dont fit 30 pin sockets on ISA bus 386s or old VLB 486 boards. You are >> making the exact mistake I tried to point out above. All the world is not >> made up of cash rich Americans bulk buying memory. > > You can get a 36-72 pin slot expander/convertor for $25.
This is the wrong converter. The motherboards have 30 pin SIMM sockets. And you need 4 30 pin SIMMs to each 72 pin SIMM which makes a converter virtually impossible to make.
> >Jon >
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