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From: qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk (Quentin Stafford-Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: More booting problems...
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.084915.20540@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Jul 92 08:49:15 GMT
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In article <14f4n8INNe18@agate.berkeley.edu>, wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu 
(William F. Jolitz) writes:

|> This sounds like the 4MB is split in the middle, and I don't know why.

Well, I wouldn't put it past HP, but nothing else seems to mind this (Linux,
DOS, Windows etc...)

|> .... At a guess, could this machine be setup for 512K of base memory 
|> instead of 640K?

It isn't - at least not in the CMOS.

I didn't get 0.0 going on here either, (but I didn't try very hard).

As Terry Lambert points out, there is a bus mouse built in....

Many thanks for your help...
Quentin


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 Quentin Stafford-Fraser            
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