Hello all,

I heard something today from a supposedly reputable and knowledgeable
source that frankly I am having trouble believing, so I bring it to this
expert court of public information...

According to my source, there is a little known limitation with current
Pentium II processors that allow them to recognize or address a limit of
64Megs of RAM. This despite the fact that many high-end Pentium IIs are
advertised as being expandable in the RAM department to much higher
amounts. Could this be a case where the Pentium II motherboards will accept
higher amounts of RAM, but somehow the excess over 64Megs is not recognized
by the CPU?

Frankly, this sounds screwy to me. I find it hard to buy that a top of the
line Pentium II based computer can only really use 64Megs of RAM.
Certainly I have never heard this before today.

According to this source of mine, there is a new flavour of Pentium II
coming out soon that will eliminate this limitation, and he predicted that
the prices of current Pentium IIs will plummet as a result.

Can anyone shed light on this? I am not gullible, and I don't believe
everything I hear, but, as I said this comes from someone who I used to
think was very knowledgeable. Is he???

TIA.

Michael


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Michael A. Wosnick
Richmond Hill, Ontario
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