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From: freak@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (c.e.malloy..iii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640KB + 3072KB = 4 MB?
Summary: AT&T 6386
Message-ID: <3254@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 89 10:57:48 GMT
References: <8909170749.AA26779@euler.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <8909170749.AA26779@euler.Berkeley.EDU>, ndeng@EULER.BERKELEY.EDU (Nan Deng) writes:
> 
> Recently I have seen a number of 386 motherboards all using PHEONIX BIOS.
> (MICRONICS, GENE, etc.) All boards have 4MB memory chips installed. All
> boards reported 640KB of base memory and 3072KB extended memory when boot up.
> 
> My question is: where is the additional 384KB?

On my AT&T 6386E WGS system the additional 384K is listed at startup
as dedicated memory.  However the new AT&T MS-DOS 4.01 operating
system recovered that memory.  Now at start-up the system shows 640K
base memory and 5504 extended memory (I have 6Mb).

Clancy Malloy
AT&T Bell Labs
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