Beyond the 16M memory barrier

Mon Sep 17 10:38:34 AEST 1990

In <1305 at unix386.Convergent.COM>, mburg at unix386.UUCP (Mike Burg,5934,,) wrote:

| In article <47137 at bigtex.cactus.org> james at bigtex.cactus.org writes:

| Dell unix (ISC derived) running on a Dell 425TE or Dell 433TE supports
| up to 64meg I believe.  These are EISA tower configurations.

> Wasn't there (is there) a version of Release 3.2 (something like
> 3.2.2) that allowed the system to work on machine that had more than
> 16MB? I believe that the drivers that use DMA had to be modified to
> use special routines to move the data below the 16MB limit.

I am not sure of the original Dell unix release (> 1yr ago).  But the
current release does work.  This is some memory shuffling that has to
happen to get data below 16meg.

This may have been a fix done at Dell, but the 425TE *is* fully supported.
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