On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > The only difference I can see in the 3 machine is the amount of memory.
> > > 
> > > vax1 and vax2 have 24 megs of ram, and vax3 has 16 meg.  Would this
> > > make a difference?
> > > 
> > Yes, it may. I have seen exactly the same behaviour on some of my 3100/38's.
> > I have no idea why this happen, though.
> 
> Confirmed.  I pulled the 20m expansion card out of vax2 and it booted
> (quite behind my back, as I turned around after being distracted and was
> greeted with a # prompt.)
> 
> Again, 3100M48 boots with 4m and 16m but NOT 20m or 24m (and greater I
> expect.)

It could also depend on the fact that 4 and 16 are exponents of 2, but 20
and 24 are. Could you possible try 32?

	Johnny

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