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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: memory configuration crisis!
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 08:06:55 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.onsou6@erics.infoserv.com>
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- David_B._Hauer@bmug.org writes:
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- > >Look at the available memory+system memory
- > >and you will see that it adds up to 20megs.
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- > We're all so used to hearing this question that several people failed to
- > notice an important anomaly: the original post indicated that the ci had 20
- > megs of RAM, and that with 32-bit addressing off, the system occupied nearly
- > 16 megs of memory. If this is true, something strange is going on.The 24-bit
- > limitation should bloat the system up to 12 megs, but not more.
- >
- > Anyone have further suggestions?
-
- I didn't see the original message, but I don't follow your reasoning.
- If the IIci had 20 Mb of memory, in 24-bit mode everything over 8 Mb
- (12 Mb) would be added to the reported system memory. So if the system
- actually took up nearly 4 Mb the reported size would be nearly 16 Mb.
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- Eric Smith
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