Timeline for How much RAM could one put in a typical 80386 setup?
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 22:25 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | @R. as long as you don’t mind a hefty speed penalty ;-). | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 22:23 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | Address lines aren't really a limit if you use EMS or paging in protected mode. You could put an unlimited amount of ram on the ISA bus if you were happy with having a driver to interface with it. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | mnem | 8MB being "considered large" in '92 is a bit of an understatement. 4MB (4 1MB SIMMs) was standard 2 years later for a 486 PC. Typical 386 PCs had 1 to 2MB, 4 or 8 256KB SIMMs. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 18:28 | comment | added | Gnudiff | Well, it was obviously Intel 80x86 architecture you were talking about, so just as a side note I remember a tech guy at my uni showing me his fully packed Sparcstation 10 in 1994, which had 512mb, so half of the GB. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 13:53 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Ah, right, yes — adding lines costs money and would only be done if it was useful! | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 13:48 | comment | added | Bernhard Döbler | Sorry, I dont want to create confusion. The processors sure had the addresses. I always believed motherboards were not equipped to handle that much memory as it was not needed. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 13:34 | comment | added | Bernhard Döbler | The limit by address lines is the important factor one could not put 4 GiB memory into a 386 setup. There were practical reasons that beat theory. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 13:19 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Missing word, more accurate personal history.
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 13:03 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
There were expansion boards too.
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 12:39 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
RAM prices. Date the advert.
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 12:29 | vote | accept | d33tah | ||
| Apr 5, 2019 at 12:25 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Alpha context.
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 12:16 | history | answered | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |