4GB memory

[Giles Orr]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  It's a list of start and end addresses and what their type is.  A
>  machine with 4GB ram should have some memory starting at 4GB so
>  something like:
>
>   BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000037142000 (usable)
>
>  So starting at 4GB to somewhere at 4.8GB should be usable ram.  My
>  number is just a random guess at what an address for .8GB might be.

This is completely counterintuitive to me - it seems you're saying "a
machine with 4GB of RAM should show/have 4.8GB RAM."  Can you help me
with that?

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