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From: waltp@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (walter piotrowski)
Subject: Re: Help!  Where's the lost 128K memory?
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 14:18:57 GMT

The missing 128kB holds a RAM copy of the ROM BIOS.  It's copied
into RAM for speed.

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Walter G. Piotrowski
Computer Science Department - Watson School
State University of New York