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From: ron@mlfarm.uucp (Ronald Florence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: total memory
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Date: 17 Mar 90 10:47:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: goer@sophist.uucp's message of 17 Mar 90 07:34:58 GMT

In article <8111@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
 > That "upper" 384 k is used by all PC's and their descendents for
 > various things like the system BIOS, video memory, etc.

The upper 384K is used by "some" PCs.  This is the startup memory of
Xenix 2.3.2 on our ps2/80 with 6 mb of ram installed:

   mem: total = 6144k, reserved = 4k, kernel = 1340k, user = 4800k
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