[Gllug] Missing RAM

[Nix]

On 18 May 2009, general told this:

> Nix wrote:
>> On 17 May 2009, David L. Neil Mailing list a. said:
>>   
>>> Is free smart enough to compensate for some old machines 'sharing' RAM 
>>> for use as video memory?
>>
>> Old machines like... brand new laptops with an Intel graphics card?
>>   
> Yeah, loads of new boxes with mobo graphics still do this, they often
> nick a good 64Mb for graphics memory.

And suck an insane amount of memory bandwidth, the most precious
resource on an x86 next to registers (and the actual CPU has so many of
those nowadays that perhaps memory bandwidth is the *most* precious
resource of all).
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