Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
i cant exactly remember the damn numbers off the top of my head, this was
almost 6 months ago, sue me already :P
-Rich Perow
-! <legacy@plink.org>
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
> rich wrote:
> >
> > well, when i had 96 meg of ram, my bios was counting the extra to. so when
> > i added the 98 that the bios showed me, i ran into a boot error which
> > completly halts the system, this was on 1.3 btw :P
>
> Umm... NOTE HERE:
>
> 1KB == 2^10 bytes. that's 1,024. NOT 1,000.
> 1MB == 2^10 Kbytes. that's 1,024^2 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes Not
> 1,000,000 bytes
> Therefore 96 MB = 96*1,048,576 or 98,304 KiloBytes, or 100,663,296
> Bytes.
> So your bios told you correctly that you had 96 MegaBytes. :>
> It's just that your definition of a MegaByte was off.
>
> --Evan
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