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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Georg DOT Kolling AT t-online DOT de (Georg Kolling), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:36:28 +0000
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Subject: Re: Linear Framebuffer with 4 GB RAM
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Georg DOT Kolling AT t-online DOT de (Georg Kolling) wrote:

> I know this is a situation that won't happen very often, but...
> What does VBE 2.0 (or anthing above) do if there are 4 GB RAM present?
> Does it just fail to map a linear framebuffer into memory, does it
> overlay some Megs of system RAM or does it display a big red button to press :)?

I don't know about  a commercial PC compatible motherboard that supports 4Gb of 
RAM so I don't think that's a problem ;-)

I guess that overlapping is the most simple way to workaround it, but you must 
wait some time before the people start to use 4Gb on PCs.

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