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- From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:49:38 GMT
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- Marc Unangst (mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us) wrote:
- : 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.
- :
- Well, I am glad that it can be done.
-
- : 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.
- :
- I don't have a SCSI controller in my machine so I haven't applied this patch.
-
- Do you have any idea what I might need to do? The configuration is pretty
- standard and the machine had the full 20MB when ESIX was installed.
-
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