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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Beyond the 16M memory barrier
Message-ID: <47267@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 17 Sep 90 00:38:34 GMT
References: <9569@ubc-cs.UUCP> <47137@bigtex.cactus.org> <1305@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1305@unix386.Convergent.COM>, mburg@unix386.UUCP (Mike Burg,5934,,) wrote:

| In article <47137@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org writes:

| 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.

I am not sure of the original Dell unix release (> 1yr ago).  But the
current release does work.  This is some memory shuffling that has to
happen to get data below 16meg.

This may have been a fix done at Dell, but the 425TE *is* fully supported.
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen          james@bigtex.cactus.org   "Live Free or Die"
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