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To: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net>
cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Lost boot up (pre DMESG) messages - BIOS mem ... 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:09:53 -0800
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>Thanks for the replies.  I am not worried about the message or even the 1K
>lost (which I understand perfectly - I had already checked my BIOS before 
>sending the message to see if that 1K was configurable like it was on
>some of my older machines), I'm merely curious what the acronym
>RTC stand for (if anything!) Real Time Clock? Nah. Read The CMOS? Hmmm.

   Real Time Clock. The RTC has some non-volatile memory on it which stores
the amount of system memory (up to 64MB).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project