More than 64MB of memory

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

There was some talk at yesterday's meeting about adding more than 64MB
of memory in a PC and if some operating systems could recognize it.
I have 128MB of memory in my work PC so I just did some testing.

First I tested Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, and they both see all 
128MB of memory just fine.

In Linux, the following line is required in /etc/lilo.conf to see any 
memory above 64MB:  (it's documented in the BootPrompt-HOWTO)

    append="mem=128M"

(change "128" to the actual amount of memory installed)

One other thing to keep in mind, is some motherboards may not cache 
memory above 64MB, so installing more than 64MB may actually slow 
down some applications.  This will vary from mobo to mobo.  See the
specs on your motherboard determine this.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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