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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: More Details on the 386BSD Release 1.0 CD-ROM
Date: 19 May 94 14:42:47
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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Message-ID: <VIXIE.94May19144247@office.home.vix.com>
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In-reply-to: jmonroy@netcom.com's message of Thu, 19 May 1994 10:59:59 GMT

jesus, you ignorant s**thead, i made the mistake of running a newsreader
that doesn't have any KILL files installed, and i happened to glance
accidentally at one of your articles today.

>        As you may (or may not) know, many early version of the Intel 386
>        could not handle more than 16MB of memory.   Along with this
>        many "support chips" could not support the address lines to
>        use ">16 MB" of memory.

there are only 24 address lines on an ISA bus.  if you know a chip set that
can address more than 16MB of memory using those 24 address lines, please
tell us all about it.

do you wear a target on your back?  is it BRIGHT RED?
--
Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
decwrl!vixie!paul
<paul@vix.com>