Chock one up to hardware inexperience. I had just installed a 16M upgrade on my brother's 486 -- a single 16M SIMM in one memory slot. The computer saw it, but I had heard that SIMMS must be installed in pairs, so I was perplexed. The 486 is a 32-bit processor after all. I found out later that it is because the BUS is 16-bit that you can install SIMMS one at a time.
Later, with 16M in my Pentium machine, I was running a lot of X applications and was using a lot of my swap space, so I decided on a 32M upgrade, mainly because RAM was getting dirt cheap. Remembering the SIMM installation on my brother's machine, I ordered a single 32M SIMM. Doh! The machine didn't see it. I either had to return the 32M for two 16M and pay a rather large restocking fee plus two-way postage, or buy another 32M SIMM -- and RAM had gotten even cheaper. I opted for the second choice (I'm single and have no kids, so I guess I can live on the wild side!). Oh well, live and learn. :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
