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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding memory to FreeBSD: where did it go?
Date: 4 Jan 1997 12:25:35 GMT
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"J.C. Archambeau" <jca@accessnv.com> wrote:

> My understanding from reading a similiar article on the comp.os.linux
> heirarchy is that Compaq memory above 16 Mb is accessed in a non
> standard manner than other systems.

No, not _accessed_, but it's not recorded in the standard CMOS (RTC)
location.  That's why the system simply doesn't know about the
additional memory in the first place.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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