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- From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: IIci System 7 Software Takes Up 13,279K!
- Message-ID: <8976@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:13:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.012356.3386@netcom.com> <C16Iwu.DLq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <C17q6w.Cuq@cc.mey.nl>
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- In article <C17q6w.Cuq@cc.mey.nl> bobp@cc.mey.nl (Bob Polis) writes:
- >Axl, yl44729@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan20.014838.5995@netcom.com>, bskendig@netcom.com (Brian
- >Kendig) writes:
- >>>> lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui) writes:
- >>>>>I have a Mac IIci with a Raster Ops 8XL video card. I selected "About this
- >>>>>Macintosh" under the Apple menu and the IIci had 20,480K total memory, a
- >>>>>Largest Unused Block of 7,7175K, and the System Software took 13,729K!
- >>>>
- >>>> (Lemme be the first in what I'm sure will be a long, long line of
- >>>> followups...)
- >>>>
- >>>> In the Memory control panel, turn 32-bit addressing on.
- >>>Lemme be the second: turn 32-bit addressing on in the memory control panel.
- >>Lemme be the third: turn 32-bit addressing on in the memory control panel.
- >Lemme be the fourth: turn 32-bit addressing on in the memory control panel.
-
- Lemme be the fifth: RTFAQ.
-
- comp.sys.mac.faq
- Copyright (C) 1992, Elliotte Harold, erh0362@tesla.njit.edu
-
- ================================================================
- QUESTION OF THE YEAR: WHY IS MY SYSTEM TAKING UP SO MUCH MEMORY? (2.0)
- ================================================================
-
- If today Apple changed About this Macintosh (About the Finder
- in System 6) to report unusable memory in its own bar rather than
- lumped together with the system, this would probably still be the
- most frequently asked question of the year. Under system versions
- earlier than 7.0 or under System 7.x without 32-bit addressing
- turned on the Mac cannot handle more than eight megabytes of real
- memory. If you have more physical RAM installed, the Mac knows
- it's there but can't do anything with it. When About the Finder is
- selected from the Apple menu, the system reports all the extra
- memory it can't use as part of the system memory allocation.
-
- To use the memory you need to get System 7 and turn on 32-bit
- addressing. ... If you're staying with System 6, Maxima from
- Connectix ($45 street) allows use of up to fourteen megabytes of
- real memory normally and can allocate anything beyond that to a
- RAM disk.
-
- --
- ________________________________________________________________________
- | John jfw@neuro.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center |
- | Whitehead jfw@well.sf.ca.us Department of Neurobiology |
- |________________________________________ Durham, North Carolina ________|
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