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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: Anyone played around with more than 16 megs o ram?
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 21:13:44 GMT
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In article <45817@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cg18fbi@icogsci2.ucsd.edu (Richard Dante) writes:
>Is the consensys that greater than 16 megs of ram is useless in 386BSD?

Well, my PC had 64MB's of RAM, and it worked fine.  I have no idea if
it ever made use of it, and didn't test the MFS, but it booted OK.

On the other hand, I had to take out 32MB's to get BSDI to load, 
something about supporting 64MB's ram would take a bit of reworking of
some kernel data structures.

I guess what annoyed me about BSD386 was that it didn't just ignore it, 
and use what it could...

Oh well.
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 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
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