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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
Keywords: 486 386
Message-ID: <3674@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 03:06:22 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.045408.15395@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr7.170017.23962@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr7.232941.21382@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr8.154643.784@saturn.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Apr8.154643.784@saturn.uucp> martin@saturn.UUCP (Martin J. Schedlbauer) writes:

| Many 486 system allow one to disable caching of memory in the upper address
| ranges. This is important for memory-mapped I/O cards such as VGA, etc. 

  ??? who's VGA are you running? I have never seen one mapped above the
first MB.
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