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Kye
17 days ago
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Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
It could have been bought old and upgraded. Not everyone had the luxury of a brand new first computer.
xxs
17 days ago
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Possibly, but even mother boards supporting 32MB would be rare. Perhaps on "DX3"?
As for a new computer and price - it was like $1000 to get AMD 486DX2-80 with 4MB RAM in '95...
pixl97
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So this depends if it was a 72 pin DIMM board. I don't think you could get there (easily?) on a 30 pin board, but 72 may have had native support for 64 out of the box.
snerbles
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I upgraded a ~1992 Dell 486 DX2 to 36MB (original 4MB + 32MB...or was it a pair of 16MB sticks? hard to remember) around 1997 or so.
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