CompuServe Messages

Steven, When boards go through the autoconfig process, the system asks how much room they need. Usually, non-memory boards, such as SCSI interfaces, graphic boards, serial boards, etc require 64k bytes or less of system memory space, so these boards are given a memory slot outside of the 8 megabyte memory range allocated for memory boards. The BB needs more than 64k bytes of system space, so it could not be assigned a slot outside of the 8 megabyte memory range. Since the BB can not be allocated space in th IO slots, it must be given a slot in the autoconfig memory area. The smallest slot that can be allocated in the autoconfig memory area is 512K bytes, thus the BB uses up 512K bytes of the 8M memory space. Clear? (like mud) The BB actually occupies 512k bytes of memory space, but this is more to do with poor design than anything else. 73, Kelly p.s. 8 Megs – 512k = 7.5 Megs!