Re: Should I upgrade to 80 MBytes on TP760ED?

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From: Hon Yau (hwyau_at_holyrood.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 02 1999 - 10:37:44 EST

Hello,

I just like to thank you and the others who have replied to my question.
I was reasonably sure how Win9x and Linux grow their memory use, but was
unsure about NT. I think on balance getting the extra memory would be
worthwhile.

                Cheers,
                        -Hon.

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bill Morrow wrote:

> NT & Linux can use the memory..
> the cache issue is hardware..
> if memory serves me correctly, win9x uses memory from the top down, thus
> with more than 64megs it is uncached memory..
> in any event, more memory is good with those OS's
>
> Hon Yau wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Thinkpad 760ED and remember reading somewhere that its chipset
> > cannot cache more than 64MBytes. I am thinking of adding an extra
> > 32MBytes to bring it up to 80MBytes, but wonder if anyone has had any
> > adverse effect from this upgrade. I shall be mostly using Linux 2.0.x,
> > Windows-NT4 and Windows 98, in order of importance.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Hon.
>
>
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