25 Apr
2008
25 Apr
'08
8:29 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Where? DOS? Somewhere in the BIOS data area?
I ask because I just received an Oct 1981 BIOS 5150 and would like to
use all of the memory :-)
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I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't
come up yet.
It's been referenced over and over without the details.
The original BIOS and the 2nd revision BIOS (Oct
1981) both had a cute
little bug in them where they would only count up to 544K
THAT'S the "about but not exactly 512K" number that we've been looking
for.
Once you finally found out about it, it wasn't too hard to patch.