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- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!reed!omen!caf
- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.101438.631@omen.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 10:14:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: omen.1992Sep13.101438.631
- References: <Bu9E9r.H7z@maxed.amg.com> <2601@aegis.or.jp> <BuAo02.Exp@ernest.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
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- >uses the intermediate buffer option (at least up to 2.2.1), SCO
- >I think supports using the intermediate buffer.
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- Yes, at least up to the 32 MB I have on my system.
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- WARNING: Every ISA backplane I tried spazzed Unix when more than
- 16 MB memory was used, or simply refused to cache memory above
- 16 MB, which wasn't much better
-
- Current motherboard is an A-I-R 50 MHz EISA with Phoenix BIOS.
- (The original BIOS wouldn't boot anything with my Adaptec 1542A.)
- All the boards are ISA, the only reason I got the EISA motherboard
- was to get a cache that works > 16MB.
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- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
- Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
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