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- From: DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon)
- Subject: Re: System memory useage under system 7
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- Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- References: <1992Sep1.004906.5000@sierra.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:50:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.004906.5000@sierra.com>
- tbiggs@sierra.com (Todd Biggs) writes:
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- >Why under system 7 on a MAC with 17MB of memory does the system take up
- >12 MB of space when the system that is there should only use 3 MB at most ?
- >
- >I've used the system 7 tune up disk and that doesn't seem to help. This
- >has never been a problem before, but now I need to use all of that memory.
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Todd
- >
- hmmmm. Depends on the computer. My brother-in-law had the same problem
- with a IIci. He's running 20 meg of real RAM ( no virtual). I went over,
- installed Mode 32, enabled it, and bingo! the problem was solved.
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