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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Are there any memory limits on older 386/486 motherboards with FreeBSD??? Date: 18 Jul 1997 22:58:24 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5qoseg$bs8@news.gvsu.edu> References: <5qo0as$284@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44629 User Rdkeys (rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu) wrote: : My question is --- are there any 16mb or other such memory limits in the : current versions of FreeBSD? I was not thinking that there was, but do : remember some versions of other *nices having problems at the 16mb barrier : on some motherboards. My boards are GA-486VT Taiwan clone shop boards : that the books on them say will take 256K/1meg/4meg simms. With 8 slots : and 4 meg simms that would give me a comfy 32mb of ram to work with. : I would not want to load up 32mb and only be able to use 16mb. You will be able to use all 32 provided your motherboard supports it. I run 20 in an old (pre-Windows 3.1) 486 board with no trouble. -- Matt Behrens <zigg@iserv.net> Support the anti-spam amendment! Zigg Computer Services Visit http://www.cauce.org/ http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/