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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to get 384K RAM back
Message-ID: <167@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 14:54:38 GMT
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grege@gold.gvg.tek.com (Greg Ebert) writes:

>Maybe you're looking for it in the wrong place. Everything from 640k - 1M is
>reserved for video ram, BIOS, etc. The RAM *should* appear between 1M and 
>1.384M. You should use the shadow ROM; I've seen shadowed video BIOS and it
>is *damn* fast. 

	That appears to be the case with many systems (like our own NEC 386)
but not with all systems. Northgate reportedly does not claim this memory
resource, nor does our IBM PS/2 80. Our AST 386/33 uses only a portion of this
memory, leaving the rest as extended memory.