Comment by psd1
6 hours ago
Did you populate the motherboard with the most it could handle, or the most you could assemble from a box of assorted sticks?
Otherwise, 110MB would hint at a fascinating engineering culture at the motherboard manufacturer.
If I remember right there were certain very early pentium 3 processor competitors from VIA and other non-intel, non-AMD sources (with much worse performance) that had integrated onboard SVGA video, where the video RAM was shared with the system DRAM. Meaning that depending how you configured the video in the BIOS, you could have something like a 128GB RAM server "minus" 16GB RAM withheld for video, with like 112GB usable by the OS.
But if this guy is talking about a pentium 75 MHz (socket 5 CPU) that's a totally different generation of stuff several generations before that.