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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Booting/NCR problems [long]
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>[... as an aside, what the hell does this mean? ...]
>BIOS basemem (635K) != RTC basemem (640K)

This means that the BIOS reserves 5K of memory for something and that
FreeBSD will not use that memory (actually 8K = 5K rounded up to a
page boundary) when it stops abusing the CMOS.

Bruce