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BOFH
Well since Windows XP won't recognize it anyway, it's really overkill. It was cheap though. $49 (after rebates) from Tigerdirect for two 2 Gig sticks. I just couldn't pass it up.
I was going to say...if your running a 32 bit OS...you have 5 gigs of RAM just eating up power...can't wait for the day when the gaming companies finally get into the 64 bit world and I can go ahead with putting a new gaming system together...
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I do remember back when I used memory managers to eke out the last few kb of RAM for my DOS stuff. And I remember my first computer, with 2kb of ram.
Those were fun days...himem.sys was a godsend...mapping to the upper memory blocks to free up enough base memory just so Wolfenstein would run...I managed to get 610k free...had to force some base processes into the upper memory region to do it...
dos scripting.
I quit "hardcore" gaming a few years back...trying to keep a job while getting only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night (1 or 2 on weekends) isn't something middle aged geeks can handle for long...good thing for coffee and dew.