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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP! (was Re: Should I turn 32-Bit Addressing On or Off?)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 08:28:32 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.dc29gs@erics.infoserv.com>
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- John Hamilton Slye <jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- > On 10-Sep-92 in Re: Should I turn 32-Bit Ad..
- > user Eric S. Smith@infoserv.c writes:
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- > >triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nick B Triantos) writes:
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- > >> vito@well.sf.ca.us (Andris Paul Vitols) writes:
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- > >> Pretty weird... I've been using system 7 on an LC II for several
- > months and
- > >> have had 32-Bit Addressing off the whole time. What are the pros
- > and cons
- > >> of this feature? Will it de-stabilize things? Speed things up?
- > Thanks...
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- > >> Basically, unless you have more than 8MB of RAM (be it physical or virtual),
- > >> there is almost no reason to turn it on. 32-bit addressing allows your
- > >> computer to utilize any RAM above 8MB.
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- > >32-bit addressing is necessary to access physical memory above 8 MB.
- > >The amount of virtual memory that can be accessed in 24-bit mode, on
- > >machines that support virtual memory, is 14 MB less 1 MB per NuBus card.
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- > >This makes virtual memory an attractive option for users with less than
- > >8 MB physical but who need somewhat more than that and would prefer not
- > >to use 32-bit mode. I used this setup for a few months but was unhappy
- > >with the degradation I saw in system performance. So I bought more RAM,
- > >turned on 32-bit mode and had to upgrade a couple of my inits (er,
- > extensions).
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- > HELP! I have 9 megs of RAM & I followed the above advice & HALF OF THE
- > APPLE MENU ICON DISAPPEARED! It reappears when I click on the icon &
- > disappears when I let go of the button.
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- > Has anyone encountered this problem before? Is there some specific
- > extension that is causing this problem?
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- I don't understand. Which advice was it that you followed?
- Did you turn on 32-bit mode or did you enable virtual memory?
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