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Article #1113Re: Decstation 3100 doesn't recognise 3rd party memory.
From: Michael Meyer
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 17:23
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 17:23
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.dec: 12-Apr-90 Re: Decstation 3100
doesn't.. Bill Wang@iuvax.cs.india (449)
> In order for the kernel to recognize the 24 megs, you would have to
> reconfig the kernel for that and tell it in /usr/sys/conf/mips/MACHINENAME.
> The whole reconfig kernel process was well documented in DEC's 'Guide to
> system configuration file maintenance for RISC processors.'
> --
> Bill Wang
> US Mail = Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
> UUCP = {rutgers, att, ames}!iuvax!wcwang
> Internet = wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
I don't believe this is true. My config files have the physmem line say
8, but the kernels happily find and use 16M of memory.
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