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From: "David K. Phinney" <dphinney@dowco.com>
Subject: FreeBSD memory limits??
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:25:02 GMT
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We run FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE on an HP Pentium 75. The machine has 80MB
of RAM,
but during bootup, freebsd only reports `67108864 (65536K bytes)' real
memory.
Could someone explain to me what's going on? Please respond also by
email if
possible.


Thanks,

David Phinney
dowco.com network services
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