On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Adrian Rollett wrote:

<lots of earlier thread snipped>
> 
> I have a IIci with 16 megs in 4 4 meg simms, and I had an interesting
> experience - I am using a nubus card, so I have no need for the intvid,
> and have no monitor connected to it. However, I noticed that when I
> booted, it siad something like:
> 16megs memeory (12 megs usable) 
> I recalled that someone had said whatever is in the first slot of the
> first bank gets used for video, whether or not you like it, and no matter
> how big the simm. Sure enough, when i switched the simms to the "B" bank,
> the boot message indicates 16 megs of RAM, with no additional caveat.

That's wierd.  Are you sure the "missing" 4MB wasn't set aside as a RAM
cache?

Anyway, I got my IIci to recognize all 80MB of memory, so:

1) it can address past 64MB, and
2) there's nothing set aside for internal video - all 80MB are useable.

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