Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:30:46 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Aylott Mark <AylottM AT thmulti DOT com>
cc: DGJPP Newsgroup <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DPMI Host limited to 64MB physical memory on Compaq PC ??
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Aylott Mark wrote:

> 
> 
> Does anyone have any reasons why no matter what
> I do in the way of machine config I cannot get more
> than 64MBytes allocatable physical memory when
> the machine I am using has 128MBytes physical
> memory ??

to my knowledge, the BIOS can't see more than 64MB of RAM at all due to
some brain damages. :)

under Linux, if you have more than 64MB, you have to explicitly tell the
kernel that you do have the extra memory, as the BIOS will not report it.


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