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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 1995 15:28:27 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org, jaitken@vt.edu
Subject:   Re: Booting/NCR problems [long]
Message-ID:  <199507070528.PAA06379@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>[... as an aside, what the hell does this mean? ...]
>BIOS basemem (635K) != RTC basemem (640K)

This means that the BIOS reserves 5K of memory for something and that
FreeBSD will not use that memory (actually 8K = 5K rounded up to a
page boundary) when it stops abusing the CMOS.

Bruce



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