Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!wlat_ltd From: wlat_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Wayne Lattery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 896K boundry Message-ID: <1210@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 25 Mar 89 18:43:23 GMT References: <13.UUL1.3#5131@mvac.UUCP> Reply-To: wlat_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Wayne Lattery) Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 6 The reason why the IBM PS/2 Model 70 has checked on 896 KB in memory is that itloads its ROM into the rest of the memory. This is one of the reasons for the Mo-del 70 being so fast as ROM chips are generally very slow. So if you need at least one Meg of memory then I suggest that you add more memory to make up the difference. Wayne N. Lattery.