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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: RAM disk in extd memory (IBM)
Summary: `fixed in 1.3' :-)
Message-ID: <15220@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 17:57:20 GMT
References: <3580016@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <3580016@hpindda.HP.COM> huilin@hpindda.HP.COM (Hui Lin Lim) writes:
>Has anyone considered putting the RAM disk into extended memory
>when MINIX is run on 386 systems?  I'm new to MINIX having just
>bought the book and software (v1.2) but haven't seen any
>discussion about this so far.

This feature was added shortly after 1.2 was released.  Minix 1.3 will
put the RAM disk into extended memory if the root disk image is
greater than 255K bytes.

Jaime
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