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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!fxmxgw!kspgwy!iwagw!jun From: jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp (Junichi Kurokawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Should I avoid Dell boxes? Date: 24 Jul 1995 09:16:29 GMT Organization: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Akasaka, Tokyo. Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JUN.95Jul24181630@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I heard several times in the past that Dell boxes have some non-standard (read bad) circuitry that's incapable of telling the operating system how much memory it really has, and FreeBSD suffers from this. My question is, do =all= Dell boxes have this deficiency, or some-do and some-don't? Thanks in advance for your comments. Regards, junichi -- Junichi Kurokawa Enterprise Networking Development Division Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.