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From: gingko69 AT aol DOT com (Gingko 69)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: RE: LFB w/4GB RAM
Date: 2 Aug 1997 08:34:01 GMT
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DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

>I know this is a situation that won't happen very often, but...
>What does VBE 2.0 (or anthing above) do if there are 4 GB RAM present?
>Does it just fail to map a linear framebuffer into memory, does it
>overlay some Megs of system RAM or does it display a big red button to
press
>:)?
>
>

4GB of RAM? 4000Mb of RAM? Uh, I think you're right, this won't happen
very often...



Gingko

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