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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: > 16 MB of RAM
Date: 1 Jul 1993 13:31:47 -0500
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
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References: <1993Jun30.184624.15579@leland.Stanford.EDU> <20ub8n$ngn@germany.eu.net>
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In article <20ub8n$ngn@germany.eu.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jun30.184624.15579@leland.Stanford.EDU>, yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes:
>|> Is anyone running 386bsd with more than 16 MB of RAM?  
>
>I've seen a system running with 20 Megabytes.
>
>However, it does not have a SCSI interface, and I do not know whether anything
>above 16M actually gets *used*.
>

The general feeling that I have gotten is that memory above 16M is used,
but can cause problems if you are using an SCSI controller in an IDE
system.

I personally have 32Meg of memory and a 40M swap.  I am using an
Ultrastore 24F EISA controller in IDE emulation mode.  I have never had
any serious problems that I could ascribe to having too much memory.
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TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX