\pard\tx520\tx1060\tx1600\tx2120\tx2660\tx3200\tx3720\tx4260\tx4800\tx5320\f2\b0\i0\ul0\fs28\fc0 Q: How do you temporarily configure a machine to use less memory? It is very important to test (and even develop) applications on machines that reflect the most common user configuration.\
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A: Under software release 2.0, a machine that has more than 8 MBytes of memory can be forced to run as an 8 MByte machine for testing purposes by typing the following command to the ROM boot monitor:\
\b \
\f0\b0 >bsd sdmach mem=8192\
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\f2 The boot messages will tell you how much memory is used. You can also use the
\f0 hostinfo
\f2 command in a shell to display the system information.\
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The number you pass to mem specifies the number of 8K pages so you could also configure the memory to 4 MBytes (