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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:44:17 -0600
From:      Jim King <king@sstar.com>
To:        De la Cruz Lugo Eric <eric@iteso.mx>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HARDWARE.TXT specific for Alpha?
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.20000107094134.00a74c90@mail.sstar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001070928460.83671-100000@iteso.mx>
References:  <14453.62608.509835.123219@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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At 09:32 AM 1/7/2000 -0600, De la Cruz Lugo Eric wrote:


>On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> >
> > De la Cruz Lugo Eric writes:
> >  > By the way, some one have information about the memory and storage 
> limits
> >  > for FreeBSD on Alpha?, max memory, max file size, thanks in advance.
> >
> > Max memory currently varies by platform.  On most machines it is 1GB
> > and on newer 21264 machines it is 2GB.
> >
> > I'll let somebody else address max file size.  I've only gone as high
> > as a few 10s of GB myself, but I think the limits should be much higher.
> >
> > Drew
>
>Thanks for the info, in X86 Architecture the RAM max size is 4 GB (check
>ftp.cdrom configuration :), i thinked that in Alpha should be bigger.
>
>i guess im wrong about that :)

On x86 the maximum memory is also specific to the PC model.  e.g. my old 
Pentium won't accept more than 128 MB; my current Pentium II won't accept 
more than 768 MB.



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