i cant exactly remember the damn numbers off the top of my head, this was almost 6 months ago, sue me already :P
-Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > rich wrote: > > > > well, when i had 96 meg of ram, my bios was counting the extra to. so when > > i added the 98 that the bios showed me, i ran into a boot error which > > completly halts the system, this was on 1.3 btw :P > > Umm... NOTE HERE: > > 1KB == 2^10 bytes. that's 1,024. NOT 1,000. > 1MB == 2^10 Kbytes. that's 1,024^2 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes Not > 1,000,000 bytes > Therefore 96 MB = 96*1,048,576 or 98,304 KiloBytes, or 100,663,296 > Bytes. > So your bios told you correctly that you had 96 MegaBytes. :> > It's just that your definition of a MegaByte was off. > > --Evan > > -- > Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 > DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- > Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE > "Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!'" --Edgar Allen Poe > "I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the > screen. > --Dilbert to Management >
