>I have a vague recollection of MS-DOS being able to reclaim this memory
>area by mapping it to the top of existing physical memory, making it
>appear as though you had 16MB + 384k or whatever.  I don't recall if this is
>due to software or hardware.

That sounds like motherboard-specific and/or BIOS specific behavior,
and not DOS...

>Is this memory hole going unused in NetBSD?

If the hardware maps it there, NetBSD will use it.

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