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DateFri, 16 Oct 1998 16:34:19 +0100 (BST)
FromGavin David McNair <>
SubjectRe: Breaking the 64MB barrier
Im not sure if anyones noticed but this limitation has been lifted in teh
2.1.x kernels anyway......

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, 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?  2.) How is it that Microsoft is able to deal with this
> without a bootloader option, and we can't?  Seems this is a sizeable flaw
> (regardless of the cause) for systems where the memory amount may be
> changed dynamically.  If this is indeed a kernel limitation, what would be
> required to get past it?
> 
> thanks,
> -bp
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> B. James Phillippe	. bryan@terran.org
> UNIX Software Engineer	. http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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