Re: System 6.0.1 (was GS/OS 6.0.1)

[venom@r-node.io.org (Robert Tate)]

Soenke Behrens (sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: David, Peter,

: In article <D3H7wv.3BH@actrix.gen.nz>
:            dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz "David Empson" writes:
: > In article <1995Feb3.173639.10523@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>,
: > Peter C. Kulupka <pckulup@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:
: > >     Also I want to upgrade my RAM from 512k to 2-4 megs.  Where can I buy a
: > > new card and how much will it run me?
: > Yes to both.  The best option is probably Sequential Systems' "RAM-GS"
: > card, which is only available with 4MB, and is probably only directly
: > available from Sequential Systems.  At last count, it cost something
: > in the range US$120 to US$130.

: Well, I may disagree, and I may not, because I forgot what all these
: cards were called now anyway :) If the RAM-GS is the 4MB-only job,
: I slightly disagree. There is a 4MB soldered in, can take 8MB card from
: the same company, and it's definitely worth the extra money. I am
: still using it with the original 4MB, but what with a load of inits
: hogging my system and all, I am now glad that I have the option to
: go to 5, 6, 7 or even 8MB. 4MB starts to look puny when only 1.5MB of
: that are free after booting and loading GNO :)

: Yours
: Soenke

One thing you should note, Sequential Systems sells two versions of 
their RAM-GS.  One comes with 4megs and is not upgradeable, and another 
with 4megs that is upgradeable.  As for inits, I have the non 
upgradeable with 4megs, have somewhere in the area of 40-50 inits, 
running 6.0.1 with a RamFAST SCSI w/256 cache and I have not run into 
any memory problems at all.  As for GNO, I dunno but, Appleworks still 
flies.  I guess my point is that since the upgradeable version is at 
least (where I get it from anyways, not direct from SS but from a 
dealer) $100 more, I'd want to make sure I really needed all that extra 
memory before I bought it.

Rob.

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