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From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] more than 16MB?
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In article <C0EHx0.qr@space.physics.uiowa.edu> ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:
>I Didn't find this in the FAQ:
>
>Is anyone out there running 386bsd on an ISA-bus machine with more than
>16MB ram?  Does 386bsd support this?  Does it (does it need to?) support
>DMA above 16MB?
>
>Thanks for any info.  I'll summarize if appropriate/useful.
>
>larry-granroth@uiowa.edu
>
I am running 386bsd 0.1 with 20MB on an ISA bus.  I don't know how
efficiently it is being used, but nothing crashes, and I can run
Xfree86, Seyon, multiple shells and a large neural net sim. without 
swapping.
I don't know about the DMA either.
john galbraith
galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu