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- From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
- Subject: Re: Memory settings
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:55:05 GMT
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- hampel@siemens.com. (Ken Hampel) writes:
-
- >I'm sure this has been discussed before, but what (if any) advantages
- >are there in running your Mac in 32bit mode. I have a IIsi and don't
- >notice any speed differences between 24bit and 32bit mode so I usually
- >just keep it in 24bit mode. Are there factors other than speed that would
- >influence one's decision to be in 32bit mode?
-
- >Also, for a IIsi, what is the optimum disk cache size?
-
- >Thanks,
- >Ken
-
- As far as I know, you MUST run 32-bit to address more than 8MB of physical
- RAM (and depending on your machine you may need MODE-32 or something like
- that). Other than that, there is no difference between 24 and 32bit modes
- (except that you may crash some software... :) )
-
- Nick
- monitn@rpi.edu
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