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From: jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 26 Oct 1994 21:35:47 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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References: <CHARNIER.94Oct13153401@baobab.lirmm.fr> <3855u0$3j9@cleese.apana.org.au> <MICHAELV.94Oct20140235@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <38ib0h$kde@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
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In article <38ib0h$kde@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>, Jim Wise <wisej@acf4.nyu.edu> wrote:
>michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>
>>   I'm running Y on a 300MHz 80486 with 5Gb of RAM and 15Tb of disk. Y
>			      ^^^^^      ^^^
>can I have the gig that hangs over the edge of your address space?

Don't worry, that Gig isn't wasted; he's got one of the serial port
control wires patched to the memory controller, so he can bank-switch
that last Gig in...

Jon

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