[ale] 486/8 meg memory as a gateway?

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

> Also, anyone tell my why the machine boots and the bios reports 8 meg,
> but free reports 6372??

I have a 486 DX2-80 with 8 MB which I've played around with as a 
network print server.  free reports 6976k total memory.  If I look 
in /var/log/dmesg, it says:

Memory: 6976k/8576k available (732k kernel code, 384k reserved, 484k data)

Apparently, the end of memory is considered to be 8576k, which is 
8 MB + 384k (The 384k being the reserved block between 640k and 1MB).  
The 6976k that free reports represents 8 MB minus 732k kernel code 
minus 484k kernel data.

--Joe
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