Re: tlug: memory size strangeness(?)

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, David J Iannucci wrote:

> When I do the "free" command on either one, it tells me that the total
> memory in the system is 8508K.  Why do I seem to be missing 1.5 MB here? 

That's about right, actually.  You lose 384Kb right off the bat in most
cases (unless your BIOS will allow you to move the shadow RAM from the
A000-FFFF memory region to a place where it can be used), and the kernel
itself will eat up around a megabyte.

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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