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- From: wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
- Subject: Re: 1M SIMM and 4M SIMM
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:43:56 GMT
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- >In article <chans.727489458@marsh> chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) writes:
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- >>possible combination is to trade 4x1 Mb SIMMs for a 4x4Mb SIMMs, and
- >>leaving the remaining 4x1 Mb SIMMs, giving a total of 20 Mb. However,
- >>isn't there some kind of problem with having more than 16 Mb of RAM??
- >>Something to do with the DMA controller??
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- Nope. Not with the DMA controller. However you are right: There is something
- to watch out for. Devices on the ISA bus only have access to the lower
- 24 address lines, for a total of 16Mb of memory. They can't access
- (DMA) memory above 16Mb. Thus software using DMA on these devices should
- be aware that they can't send things to above the 16Mb boundary.
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- Roger.
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