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From: mburg@unix386.Convergent.COM (Mike Burg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Beyond the 16M memory barrier
Message-ID: <1305@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 16 Sep 90 05:36:11 GMT
References: <9569@ubc-cs.UUCP> <47137@bigtex.cactus.org>
Reply-To: mburg@unix386.UUCP (Mike Burg,5934,,)
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In article <47137@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>In <9569@ubc-cs.UUCP>, rlin@cs.ubc.ca (Robert Lin) wrote:
>> Does any present day 386 UNIX variant support memory beyond the 16M
>> limit, say on an EISA machine?
>Dell unix (ISC derived) running on a Dell 425TE or Dell 433TE supports
>up to 64meg I believe.  These are EISA tower configurations.

Wasn't there (is there) a version of Release 3.2 (something like 3.2.2) that
allowed the system to work on machine that had more than 16MB? I believe that
the drivers that use DMA had to be modified to use special routines to
move the data below the 16MB limit.

Mike Burg
Unisys Corp, San Jose