Memory. (was: Reliability of wrong media)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sat Jan 23 14:06:19 1999

At 09:34 AM 1/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>"Buck Savage" <hhacker_at_gte.net> wrote:
>
>>>Heck - my home PC has 128 Mb... which shows up through the
>>>POST as 130nnn (I forget the last three digits).
>>
>>128 * 1024 =3D 131072
>>
>>Hence, if your display is
>>
>>131072K
>>
>>then your display is accurate.
>
>And it isn't what is displayed, though it is what I expected...

  Some BIOSs don't count the memory between 640K and 1024K so the amount of
memory that POST shows may be off by 384K. K=1024 bytes.


   Joe
Received on Sat Jan 23 1999 - 14:06:19 GMT