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- From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
- Subject: Re: Why does 7.1 system need 9921k?
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- References: <1992Dec31.113428.20448@walter.cray.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:56:49 GMT
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- slow@ferrari.cray.com (David Slowinski) writes:
-
- >The 7.1 system on my Mac II ci seems to use lots of
- >memory even when I boot without INIT's from a floppy.
-
- >Radius Precision Color Display/20 with 8 bit color card
- >Virtual memory: OFF
- >disk cache: 512k
-
- >memory: 16384k
- >System software: 9921k
- >Largest unused block: 6437k
-
- >Can this be normal? I have no idea where to look for
- >the culprit. I welcome any suggestions.
-
- This probably isn't the only answer you'll receive, but...
-
- Turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory control panel to use more than 8 Megs
- of memory. The extra in your machine (8 Megs) is added to your system allotment
- when you're in 24-bit mode.
-
- Nick
- monitn@rpi.edu
-
- >Thank you kindly,
-
- >David Slowinski
- >slow@cray.com
-