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From: tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Max. Addressable Physical Memory
Date: 6 Oct 1996 11:17:29 -0500
Organization: TundraWare
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Message-ID: <538m2p$g8h@Mercury.mcs.com>
Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com

My FreeBSD 2.1.5 systems runs on a Gateway 90Mhz Pentium motherboard.
I recently upgraded from 16MB to 80MB (2-32M and 2-8M SIMMS).  The
POST sees all 80MB, but FreeBSD sees only the first 64MB.  Is there
some inherent FreeBSD limitation here or is this a problem 'cause I
mixed SIMM sizes?

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