Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:50:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Stub error messages (Was: Re: 'Cannot open')
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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>I would suggest something much simpler: if you get 0 from the code I 
>posted, just tell them that they have ``at least 128MB of memory''.  
And if you get 65536? You can't tell whether it is the amount of memory REALLY
installed in the computer...

>Machines which have that much, really don't have to worry about the
>exact number...
>
>A still better solution is to check the physical memory returned by the 
>DPMI functions, and if it's more than 128MB, add 128MB to the value 
>returned by CMOS.
I think that it's sensible. Still, it would be great to have a way to find out
the actual and exact amout of memory present.

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