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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
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Subject: Re: [386BSD] more than 16MB?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:29:27 GMT
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In article <1993Jan6.203341.6812@tfs.com>, julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
- >> Is anyone out there running 386bsd on an ISA-bus machine with more than
- >> 16MB ram?
- >Yes. I've seen a machine with 20MB and heard of one with 64 MB
- >(yes, sixty-four) No, not me...
- I doubt this very much

according to the stuff you mentioned in your post, I think I must add that this
is supposed to be a 486/66DX2 EISA machine

- the upshot of this is that 386BSD can only make use of (32 - X)MB of real
- ram (where X is an unknown number) 20MB certainly works.

I didn't claim that guy had ever actually *used* the RAM, did I ?

- however the EISA scsi drivers do support 32 bit adresses. so bounce buffers
- are not needed.

He says he's using an adaptec 1740 (or whatever it's called)...

-Bernard