Re: Using pkgsrc with low RAM

Make sure the SIMM is FPM and double sided single banked. For 64MB would be same but single sided. 

If you want I could look for a part number. Right now tho I can't get to it it's buried under some other equipment that is busy working. 


On Apr 6, 2013, at 1:02 AM, James Stocks <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4 Apr 2013, at 19:29, Hauke Fath <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> First and best thing you could do is probably looking for a 64 MB SIMM (I
>> don't know if 72 pin SIMMs ever came in 128 MB a piece). Borrowing from an
>> old Volkswagen saying, memory is irreplaceable, except by more memory.
> 
> Thanks for the responses everyone.  I will take a punt on a 128 MB SIMM, there are a few on eBay for not too much money.  Of course I will report any success or failure.
> 
> Incidentally, I'm really happy with how well NetBSD works on this old Mac, it was the first BSD system I set up and it's been running NetBSD 2.0 since around 2006.  Having half-forgotten about it since then, I finally did an upgrade from 2.0 to 6.0.1 last weekend and it went really smoothly.  Impressive.
> 
> James.