Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

[Evan Van Dyke <e-van@nwu.edu>]

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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