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		olliej on Dec 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adventures of putting 16 GB RAM in a motherboard t... Haha, many many years ago I had a 486 motherboard, and through lots of sailing I was able to save to afford 2 8mb simms. I plugged them in and it reporter... 12Mb :-D

ddingus on Dec 13, 2021 [–]

I had a 5Mb 386 system for a while. Often, a program requiring 8Mb of RAM would work, just poorly on more than 4.

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