Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:16:24 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 05:06:33, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On April 12, 2000 at 18:32:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Some versions of win95 would definitely not go beyond 128mb. > >I understand that all versions of Windows 95 and 98 can address up to 4GB RAM, >but some motherboards couldn't cache more than 64MB RAM. > >Enrique All I can definitely say is that the version of Win95 that came on a bunch of machines we bought at one time for a lab, would not recognize beyond 128mb until our windows guy installed an update. Linux would see the memory just fine, so it wasn't a hardware problem. As far as caching, that isn't a windows issue as it has absolutely no control over the cache hardware. Several vendors used a particular intel chipset (I don't recall the name of this chipset) that would only cache the first 64 megs, but that was just a poor hardware design as they only included enough TAG ram for 64 mb, and if you added more memory beyond 64mb, it bypassed cache and made the machine slow way down... We also had versions of linux that would stop at 16mb, etc... But not for a long time now.
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