From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Any dual or quad motherboard recommendations... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010827151827.E33E5199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:18:21 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6cf5cde-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon Aug 27 11:15:37 EDT 2001, cross@math.psu.edu wrote: > In article <20010827040514.78FCF19A35@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write: > >It cost ~$30K in 1998 with 2GB memory. > > Somewhere I remember reading that Plan 9 would only support machines > with up to some strange amount of RAM; something along the lines of > 1.5 or 1.75GB. This would seem to contradict that; what's the max > amount of RAM that Plan 9 *can* support? > > - Dan C. There's 2GB physical but because of the way we currently map things we can only use 1.75GB. It's on the list of things to fix.