SCO Unix 3.2 version 2.0 upgrade?
Brian Chapman
chapman at sco.COM
Thu Jul 26 10:25:33 AEST 1990
chip at chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <M1JJH00.90Jul24134608 at msuws2.fed.frb.gov>
> m1jjh00 at fed.frb.gov (Jeffrey J. Hallman) writes:
>>My question: what does this mean? Extended memory for UNIX? Isn't
>>extended memory a DOS concept?
>An unfortunate choice of terms. I think what they are trying to say is
>that their memory support has been extended, and now up to 256Meg of main
>memory can be handled.
ISA DMA design can only reach the low 16Mb of physical memory.
"Extended memory" support means that we have worked around this
limitation.
-- Chapman
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