Pete wrote:
> The abuv board memory cards are a cool thing, and I do
> know some one who has two of em, also a cople of kingston
> memory cards.
I have a few of those. The trouble is that without
documentation it is hard to guess at the switches.
Often you can be lucky and they just work when you
plug them in.
> He is trying to use them in some compaque 486 computers
> he has whith out much luck.
> The computer runs a lot faster if the abuvboard memory
> card is not being used, and windows 95 drivers are not
> available for them, are they?
You don't use drivers AFAIK, they just continue the memory
addresses where the on-board RAM left off. Hence the need
to get the dip switches correct. They are no good in
anything but the slowest computers. Definately a liability
in a 486.
But hey, it sure would be cool if you could speed up
your RAM with a driver! Hehehe You could sell that!
> I was going to buy one for ten bucks, but well, I
> couldn't find any drivers for em eather.
Ten bucks is waaayyy too much!
> Some thing really super cool would be an one gig isa
> slot memory chip. Instead of using a sim or dim slot use
> an existing isa slot.
They were cool on XT's but don't forget that they run on
the BUS and so can only be accessed at bus speed, NOT at
the processor speed. That means they are veeeerrryyyyy
sloooowwww. <g>
Cheers,
Ole Juul
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