Re: 128MB RAM on Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:15:08 +0100 (BST)


> But btw, why does Linux isn't recognizing more than 64MB automatically??
> It's one of the "plus" things Windows have... :/

2.0.36pre does ;)

Its because the original IBM PC bios call for "how much memory please"
returns the number of 1K blocks in a 16bit value.

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