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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP
Date: 9 Oct 1995 09:33:36 +0100
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Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote:

>: Why the hell do you want something like a DX4-120?  Are you going to
>: run ghostscript on it?  Or povray?  Or is this the only heating in
>: your room? :-)
>
>I want the ultimate iteration of a mature hardware technology, ...

Sorry, i should have made the smiley bigger. :)  It's wasn't to
taken too serious at all...


>: You have to use a modified kernel config file for memory > 64 MB,
>: since this is the limit that could be handled by the CMOS (in
>: reporting the amount of RAM to the BSD kernel).
>
>Hmm,is this going to be maintained in future versions?I'll be over 64MB in
>a couple of years,I expect.

The problem is that the CMOS field does only allow for 64 MB.  There's
a kernel option now (i forgot its name, but it should be in LINT) to
override the CMOS.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)