Re: 64 MB memory config under VSTa

Hello,
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Andy Valencia wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm hoping somebody out there can cast a little light on this subject.
> I'm playing with > 16 MB memory configs, and ran into a PC limitation. I
> extract the memory size from a pair of RTC locations, which are combined
> as: (hi << 8) | low. This value is in K, and thus overflows at 64 megs.
> Does somebody know offhand how I decode memory size in this range?
>
I don't know a way to come around this limitation, but can't we use a
command-line-switch for the start of vsta, which overrides the detected
amount of memory? This is the way, that is used by linux (commandline
parameter mem=xxx of the linux kernel).

ciao,
        Juergen Ilse (ilse@asys-h.de)
Received on Mon Aug 25 22:39:21 1997