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Re: GRUB 1.90 is released


From: Vladimir Serbinenko
Subject: Re: GRUB 1.90 is released
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:47:34 +0200
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Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

>
>Besides that, we must learn from the history. Many years ago, nobody could 
>imagine that computers would have more than 1MB memory. So the braindead Gate 
>A20 had to be invented. Likewise, nobody could imagine that hard disks would 
>exceed 500MB. So LBA mode had to be invented. You can find many similar 
>problems from the computer history.
>
>  
>
BTW. About A20: I foundan article about it:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/A20.html.
Has anybody tested grub2 on i386 processor? Do you think that 2
microseconds will
invalidate the cache if processor is waiting?
                                                                        
                              Vladimir




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