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From: jmk@pla...
Subject: Re: [9fans] Any dual or quad motherboard recommendations...
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:18:21 -0400

On Mon Aug 27 11:15:37 EDT 2001, cross@mat... wrote:
> In article <20010827040514.78FCF19A35@mai...> 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.