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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6807 ; Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:35:56 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!boulder!ucsu!rintintin.Colorado.EDU!galbrait From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) Subject: Re: [386BSD] more than 16MB? Message-ID: <1993Jan6.072007.28763@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <C0EHx0.qr@space.physics.uiowa.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:20:07 GMT Lines: 20 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