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    SubjectRe: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up
    On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Martin Mares wrote:

    > > > OK, I incorrectly assumed we call the old function first and continue
    > > >with the new one only if it reports 64M...
    > >
    > > That's what I did in 2.0.30, unfortuantely BIOS on Compaq's only
    > > reports a maximum of 16MB wiht the old BIOS call.
    >
    > Maybe call the new one for >=16MB? This will reduce the chance of crash
    > on a mis-behaved BIOS to minimum. If such broken BIOS'es exist, they are
    > probably on the 386's and most 386 machines have probably <16MB RAM.

    FWIW I recently worked on a 386 (!) with 32 megs ram.....

    The guy wanted to upgrade....

    Ciao!
    - Teunis

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