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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:18:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        jko@vivid.autometric.com
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BIOS poke for memsize(2) on SuperMicro P6DOF?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960612131740.7312D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9606121005.ZM27898@khan.autometric.com>

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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, John Ko wrote:

> 
> I have a SuperMicro P6DOF which is installed with 128MB.
> Under DOS 6.2, Linux 1.3.x, and FreeBSD 2.1, the OS's report
> only 64MB.  Under Windows 95, it reads 128MB.  What's going on?

You're running Ramdoubler?

Win95 may be factoring in swap.

> When I go down to the DOS prompt from Win95, and do "mem" it
> reports 128MB, but under normal DOS boot or for that matter
> any other Unix OS's, the memory size report is only 64MB.

I'd believe those over Win95.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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