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    SubjectRe: Breaking the 64MB barrier
    "B. James Phillippe" wrote:
    >
    > Greetings,
    >
    > I am aware that passing the "mem=XX" option in LILO overcomes this
    > problem; this is irrelevant because it has nothing to do with what I'm
    > about to ask (for you rapid-reply "RTFM" people).
    >
    > The question is this: I had a debate with someone about the 64MB+
    > memory issue with Linux. Their position is that it's a bug in the kernel,
    > and mine was that it was an x86 BIOS limitation. I have two questions:
    > 1.) who's right?

    a) problem is solved already; only 2.0.35 and lower can't correctly
    detect > 64M of RAM

    > 2.) How is it that Microsoft is able to deal with this
    > without a bootloader option, and we can't?

    this simply is not true; I have a friend with a system board that has
    128M of ram on, and WinNT 4.0 (with all the patches) only recongizes
    64M.

    MS's reply?

    It's the bios, or the system board. Upgrade!

    Thomas

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