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- From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
- Subject: Re: 32 bit addressing in 6.0.8
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.052748.25572@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:27:48 GMT
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- jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore) writes
- >>How does one turn on 32-bit addressability in 6.0.8? There is nothing on
- >>the control panel for this and I can't find any "memory" control-panel
- >>documents on any 6.0.8 system disks.
-
- >There is no Memory control Panel for 6.0.x to initiate 32-bit addressing.
- >You must use a 3rd-party utility--"Virtual" from Connectix is one, I
- >believe--to give you 32-bit addressing.
- I think you are confusing virtual memory with real memory and addressing.
- This is what MacUser says about Virtual: (MacUser Special 1993:290)
- "Virtual is a virtual-memory program. Provides up to 15MB of EFFECTIVE
- RAM using HARD DISK drive...".
- There is no mention of 32-bit addressing which makes sence because
- the 6.0.x OSes are 24-bit OSes and would require MAJOR patching to use
- 32-bit addressing. Other programs get around the 8MB problem by creating RAM
- disks, which is a little better then not being able to use the RAM at all, but
- not by much.
- If you want to use more then 8MB of REAL RAM (and not use virtual memory)
- I would recommend going to System 7.X. If you want 32-bit addressing beyond
- just the extra memory (A few high end programs MUST run under 32-bit addressing)
- then System 7.X is pretty much the only way to go.
-
- "Eliminate the impossible and what ever remains, no matter how improbable,
- is the truth" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes
-