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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!dime!shri From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD Questions Message-ID: <53950@dime.cs.umass.edu> Date: 25 Sep 92 19:41:15 GMT References: <2013.416.uupcb@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar) Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 14 In article <2013.416.uupcb@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us> mike.batchelor@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us (Mike Batchelor) writes: > > this even an issue for 386BSD? How about the Mylex and AMI > brands? Generic Taiwanese OPTI/AMI? I read elsewhere in this > group a reference to a 16Mb limit, but couldn't find any other > details. 16M is a good amount to start with, but I would surely > want to go to 32 or 64 later. If this 16 MB limit is dues to 24 bits of address on the ISA, then does it hold for memories (SIMMs) directly on the mother board ? On the Generic Taiwan OPTi/AMI boards ? -- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in )