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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Does 386bsd recognize expanded memory?
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 00:18:26 GMT
Message-ID: <BuwJIq.BA@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
References: <1992Sep18.150148.13016@umr.edu>
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In <1992Sep18.150148.13016@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu (Jui-lin Lu) writes:
>The subject says it all.  Thanks for any reply.

No. Expanded memory uses special hardware kludges to map it in small
chunks below 1MB. You can have only a couple of these chunks mapped at
any time. This is nothing a sane OS would cope with.

-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

ISO? Nicht immer, aber immer M-vfter.