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SubjectRe: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Martin Mares wrote:

> > > OK, I incorrectly assumed we call the old function first and continue
> > >with the new one only if it reports 64M...
> >
> > That's what I did in 2.0.30, unfortuantely BIOS on Compaq's only
> > reports a maximum of 16MB wiht the old BIOS call.
>
> Maybe call the new one for >=16MB? This will reduce the chance of crash
> on a mis-behaved BIOS to minimum. If such broken BIOS'es exist, they are
> probably on the 386's and most 386 machines have probably <16MB RAM.

FWIW I recently worked on a 386 (!) with 32 megs ram.....

The guy wanted to upgrade....

Ciao!
- Teunis

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