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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Message-ID: <BuAIIo.EE6@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:49:34 GMT
- References: <Bu2oA5.9GL@constant.demon.co.uk> <Bu9E9r.H7z@maxed.amg.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <Bu9E9r.H7z@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed (Ed Whittemore) writes:
- >THis is a complicated issue, but the answer is you don't.
-
- Well, please don't tell my computer that. It's been happily
- recognizing all 20MB of memory in this machine for quite a while, and
- I wouldn't want it to stop now.
-
- I *have* applied the 403001 patch from Esix, but I don't think that's
- required to get it to recognize all the memory -- you just need it if
- you have a bus mastering hard disk controller and >16MB of memory.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't use Windows. Real men use X.
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Only a real man would use a GUI where the
- | shift keys after "Alt" are "Super" and "Hyper."
-