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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:58:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Marslett <charles DOT marslett AT tempe DOT vlsi DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Stub error messages (Was: Re: 'Cannot open')
In-Reply-To: <325C07D9.5192@tempe.vlsi.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961010085525.10390F-100000@is>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Charles Marslett wrote:

> I seem to remember something from the PC Interrupt List to the effect
> that the CMOS memory size is limited to 16 MB, and other techniques are

I tested that program on several machines with up to 64MB of memory, and 
got the exact sizes on each one of them.  Memory size is stored in the 
CMOS memory in units of 1KB and in 2 bytes, so it's sufficient to report 
as much as 64M bytes.  After that, it will probably wrap.

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