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128 MB in a 486 is insane. 16 MB was a lot in that era. I remember upgrading my Pentium II (!!!) from 64 MB to 128 MB, in order to not suffer death by loading s

128 MB in a 486 is insane. 16 MB was a lot in that era. I remember upgrading my Pentium II (!!!) from 64 MB to 128 MB, in order to not suffer death by loading screen in Diablo II.

scoopr 5y ago
HUGE pagefile.sys!
herodoturtle 5y ago
You said it mate. I ran a 486DX266 at the time and it only came with 1MB of SIMM memory. Hell, I even remember upgrading it to 4MB of EDO memory was a big deal (and this was done purely so that I could run "Crusader: No Remorse"). And now I write software for a living. Good times.
- aliswe 5y ago
  Great game back in the day!
forinti 5y ago
If I recall correctly, my 486 had 4MB of RAM. I then had a Pentium 166MMX with 64MB (16MB was what was usually offered) which I recently upgraded to 80MB with a couple of sticks I found in an old box.
mrlonglong 5y ago
Has any one ever seen a 386 with 4GB of RAM in the wild?
- Koshkin 5y ago
  The first computer that I bought was an AMD 40MHz 386, and I decided that I wanted an infinite amount of RAM, so I specced it to have 8MB.
- swiley 5y ago
  Is the address bus big enough?
  - Koshkin 5y ago
    It's 32-bit.
    - mrlonglong 5y ago
      I'm pretty sure they did do some with that amount of memory just can't remember if it was Dell or something else.
    - swiley 5y ago
      It is logically but I know on some processors (possibly not intel) they don't connect all the address lines.
cat199 5y ago
yeps.. we had an 8mb 386/33 at around this time, which is why i'm still amazed at my 1991 vaxstation with 80MB and 40Mhz though in those days it was def. a different class of machine
MKarcher 5y ago
Post author here: Well, this is not your run-of-the-mill Desktop Computer, but it is an Intel-based system designed as Server. Servers tend to have (a lot of) more RAM than desktop systems, so I think 128MB is not that much out-of-place. I got an acceptable price on the required 72-pin non-EDO parity SIMMs, so why not max it out? The hard drive in that machine is still the original COMPAQ OEM version of the Fujitsu M2622F SCSI drive. In 1993, that was the entry base option for storage in that server, and I dare to say that it is typical Compaq tradition that the base level disk drive is just barely aedequate for the system. While that Fujitsu drive was a fair performer in 1991 when it was designed, in 1993 it wasn't that cool anymore. Granted, there were better options available, you could even get an EISA SCSI raid controller for that system. And as a final remark: Diablo II was the reason my brother upgraded his K6-2 machine from 32MB to 128MB.
- yuhong 5y ago
  I believe that at the time it would have required 16Mbit DRAM, which was still not common in 1994 outside of workstations and servers. (most of them at the time came in larger "400 mil" packages, as opposed to the "300 mil" packages that would have been common by 1995, and as a side note this is part of why 16MB 30-pin SIMMs was never common as the larger package would make them very tall)

128 MB in a 486 is insane. 16 MB was a lot in that era. I remember upgrading my Pentium II (!!!) from 64 MB to 128 MB, in order to not suffer death by loading screen in Diablo II.

scoopr 5y ago

HUGE pagefile.sys!

herodoturtle 5y ago

You said it mate. I ran a 486DX266 at the time and it only came with 1MB of SIMM memory. Hell, I even remember upgrading it to 4MB of EDO memory was a big deal (and this was done purely so that I could run "Crusader: No Remorse"). And now I write software for a living. Good times.

aliswe 5y ago
Great game back in the day!

forinti 5y ago

If I recall correctly, my 486 had 4MB of RAM. I then had a Pentium 166MMX with 64MB (16MB was what was usually offered) which I recently upgraded to 80MB with a couple of sticks I found in an old box.

mrlonglong 5y ago

Has any one ever seen a 386 with 4GB of RAM in the wild?

Koshkin 5y ago
The first computer that I bought was an AMD 40MHz 386, and I decided that I wanted an infinite amount of RAM, so I specced it to have 8MB.
swiley 5y ago
Is the address bus big enough?
- Koshkin 5y ago
  It's 32-bit.
  - mrlonglong 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure they did do some with that amount of memory just can't remember if it was Dell or something else.
  - swiley 5y ago
    It is logically but I know on some processors (possibly not intel) they don't connect all the address lines.

cat199 5y ago

yeps.. we had an 8mb 386/33 at around this time, which is why i'm still amazed at my 1991 vaxstation with 80MB and 40Mhz though in those days it was def. a different class of machine

MKarcher 5y ago

Post author here: Well, this is not your run-of-the-mill Desktop Computer, but it is an Intel-based system designed as Server. Servers tend to have (a lot of) more RAM than desktop systems, so I think 128MB is not that much out-of-place. I got an acceptable price on the required 72-pin non-EDO parity SIMMs, so why not max it out? The hard drive in that machine is still the original COMPAQ OEM version of the Fujitsu M2622F SCSI drive. In 1993, that was the entry base option for storage in that server, and I dare to say that it is typical Compaq tradition that the base level disk drive is just barely aedequate for the system. While that Fujitsu drive was a fair performer in 1991 when it was designed, in 1993 it wasn't that cool anymore. Granted, there were better options available, you could even get an EISA SCSI raid controller for that system. And as a final remark: Diablo II was the reason my brother upgraded his K6-2 machine from 32MB to 128MB.

yuhong 5y ago
I believe that at the time it would have required 16Mbit DRAM, which was still not common in 1994 outside of workstations and servers. (most of them at the time came in larger "400 mil" packages, as opposed to the "300 mil" packages that would have been common by 1995, and as a side note this is part of why 16MB 30-pin SIMMs was never common as the larger package would make them very tall)