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From: aland@informix.com (alan denney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 386/ix 2.20 and 12 megs RAM
Summary: don't miss the bus
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.005047.28143@informix.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 00:50:47 GMT
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In article <1990Oct10.223330.11537@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>Both 2.0.2 386/ix and ISC UNIX 2.2 will make full use of 16MB of memory. I 
>have heard, but not tested that ISC UNIX 2.2 will also make full use of 
>memory above 16MB on EISA machines with EISA controllers.

EISA only???   AT&T's 3.2 can use > 16MB on any machine, though DMA
gets rather goofy...

I see no technical barrier to supporting > 16MB on MCA, either...
do they say why they don't?

>Conor P. Cahill

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