Strange memory reading (hardware)

[Robert]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:09:30 -0500
Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:

> It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - "Redistribution
> of RAM".  You see, even with all the entitlement programs "poor"
> people can't afford more than 512MB of RAM.  As you are certainly
> aware that's not enough to watch YouTube and Hulu on their government
> funded (tax payer funded) ultra high speed internet connections.  So,
> the government has taken some of your RAM (as you obviously can
> afford to buy more if needed) and will give it to those who really
> NEED it - so while they sit around collecting government aid (tax
> payer earnings) their streaming video's will play smoothly.

What! I didn't even vote for those guys. :-)
> 
> Woa - I guess I digressed a bit...
> 
> Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be.  Is there some memory
> mapped video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM?
> 
I guess I wasn't clear. Only 2752 MB is show during POST instead 0f
4096. It has always shown 4096 on this MB.

Thanks for lighting up my day with the above humor. :-)

Robert