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From: porphano@lehi3b15.UUCP (Paul Orphanos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 Model 70 memory
Keywords: IBM Memory
Message-ID: <438@lehi3b15.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 16:51:20 GMT
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Reply-To: porphano@lehi3b15.UUCP (Paul Orphanos)
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In article <742@ur-cc.UUCP> wlat_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Wayne Lattery) writes:
>
> I do not think what the IBM representative had said to is true. I have an
>IBM model 50Z with a 20meg harddrive and every time it goes through the 
>startup procedure, it always counts up to 1024 Kb in memory, which I understand
>is one meg of memory.
>....
>                         Wayne N. Lattery

The 'problem' is only for model 70's. The ROM's automatically copy themselves
into RAM to make the machine run faster. There's nothing you can do about it
(or so IBM dealer support says).

Paul Orphanos