How do you remap memory on a 386 ?

HIM tron1 at tronsbox.UUCP
Sat Oct 7 17:21:55 AEST 1989


>	I've just bought a 386 machine with 1Mb RAM and intend to run UNIX on it. 
>	One thing strikes me as odd -  only 640kb of memory is visible.

Not Odd at all. 

*0386 (and in fact AT's) use the address space from 640-1MEG as the space
for various ROMS for VGA , HD CONTROLLERS and the like.

As far as I know , there is NO way to get it into useful space.

You might as well shadow and get the speed.

ALL the UNIX systems I have installed have this problem.

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