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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Memory size not detected Message-ID: <E6znzJ.Ku2@ora.de> Organization: Verlag O'Reilly References: <6SfU0flZo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:50:07 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2799 In <6SfU0flZo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) writes: >But WHAT value does this option take? >The whole memory in kilobytes (20480) or in Megabytes (20M), or does >EXTMEM mean only the "extended" memory in MS-DOS manner, that is all >memory extending the very first megabyte of RAM ????? >Currently I try "EXTMEM_SIZE=20480". This is the number of KByte above 1MB. For your system, the value is 19456 plus whatever the BIOS remaps to above 1M from the 384KB hole between 640K and 1M. -- Christoph Badura Now available in print: Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code http://www.peer-to-peer.com/