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To: Ed Hudson <elh_fbsd@spnet.com>
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Subject: Re: 1gby physical ram 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 17:55:50 -0700
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>howdy.
>
>	well, i've just succesfully built and booted a 1gby
>	physical ram p6 machine (tyan-titan-pro), using 2.2-gamma
>	from 2/15 and the d.greenman pmap patch posted a few weeks back
>	when someone else needed a 512mby fix.
>
>	once again, you folks have confirmed my belief that freesbd
>	is the *best* operating system going, at any price.
>
>	btw, the application needing the 1gby memory is running 'irsim'
>	from the packages directory simulating a very big chip...
>
>	thanks to all of you hackers!

   Cool! Thanks for the note! ...now I want to go and upgrade wcarchive to
1GB. :-) What type of memory are you using and how much did it cost?

-DG

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