Re: Using pkgsrc with low RAM

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

Hi,

> If anyone's keeping score, the 128MB SIMM arrived and it is working. 
> The only problem: it's too tall to clear the heatsink on the 68040 by a 
> few mm.  I ran it without the heatsink for a few minutes just to test 
> and it wasn't getting particularly hot, but I expect I'll need to rig up 
> a smaller heatsink from my box of bits.  Especially before I ask it to 
> chew on pkgsrc again.  But, so far so good!

I have an almost identical SIMM. I just trimmed the first two rows of the 
fingers on the heat sink:

http://www.ziaspace.com/~john/boobookitty/Pages/11.html

John