On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jeff Northon wrote:

>Is there a limit on the amount of memory in a netbsd machine?
>
>Linux just announced an expansion on their memory.
>
>>The new extension is a major step up from the 2GB of RAM that previously
>>was the maximum memory available on Intel servers running the Linux
>>operating system, said Frank Schuhmann, a spokesman at SuSE. 
>
>Jeff Northon
>
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99098.pilinextend.htm

I don't know about NetBSD, but FreeBSD has been addressing 4 GB of RAM
for a while;  this is from the login message at ftp.freebsd.org:

230-This machine is a Xeon/500 with 4GB of memory & 1/2 terabyte of RAID 5.
230-The operating system is FreeBSD.


-Mike