386/ix 2.20 and 12 megs RAM

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>From article <1990Oct09.160925.1433 at nstar.uucp>, by larry at nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder):
> does the 2.20 release of 386/ix fully support
> motherboards with 12 megs of ram (can the OS
> use all 12 megs)??  Someone told me that 386/ix
> will only use 8 megs for the OS, and the other
> 4 megs could be used by ramdisks - but not by
> the OS..

   Hello Larry,

I am running Interactive UNIX 2.2 on an 80486 system, and from what I can
see it is addressing all 12meg of avalible memory.  I am now debating the
possibility of expanding to 13 or 16 meg of main memory.  Hope this is 
what you were looking for...


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