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Article #1436Re: Why is installed memory > Usable memory (16 vs 15.6 Mb) on my Model 90
From: Morten Christian Holmgreen
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:56
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:56
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stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes: >After many attempts (involving swapping memory from one slot to another...) >I have upgraded my Ps/2 model 90 from 8 to 16 Mb. However, when I fire it up, >it only counts up to 16000k (rather than 16384), and the reference disk tells >me I have 16Mb installed, but only 15.6Mb usable. >Should I try to do anything about this, or is this what I should be seeing? >At various times, it managed to count to only 12Mb, 4Mb!, 8Mb etc, so >maybe I should be glad I can boot at all. However, I'd appreciate knowing >if I should be trying to correct some problem (of course, even 15.6 Mb is a >lot more than 8). >Thanks for any suggestions >Richard Stanton I don't think you can do anything about that. I have 36M in my 95, but it "only" counts to 36480K bytes, NOT 36864K. The systems uses the remaining 384K. Christian -- M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science "Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!joker From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: Why is installed memory > Usable memory (16 vs 15.6 Mb) on my Model 90 Message-ID: <1993Jan27.135604.2171@odin.diku.dk> Date: 27 Jan 93 13:56:04 GMT References: <1k4g2i$r7b@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: joker@ask.diku.dk Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 26