As Mihoko Tanaka wrote:
>
> >>There is no documented API to return the amount of RAM in a machine
> >>other than CMOS. There is no BIOS routine that can be used by the
> >>boot blocks to overcome this limit, nor does the POST place the results
> >>of its test or expose a ROM routine for sizing memory.
>
> I asked a engineer of COMPAQ about it last month.
> He said that we can use the following BIOS call for getting the
> amount of RAM in a machine.
>
> ------------------------ cut cut cut ---------------------------------
> INT 15h AX=E801h ---- GET SUPER EXTENDED MEMORY INFORMATION
He's apparently kidding. :-/ He tells you to overcome a Compaq
bogosity by yet another Compaq bogosity.
Of course, for Compaq, the world is okay. There's nothing else than
Compaqs around, certainly...
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cheers, J"org
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