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From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: virgin System uses > 1 Meg of RAM ???!!!
Message-ID: <3582@hub.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 90 18:25:03 GMT
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From article <7380034@hpwrce.HP.COM>, by ted@hpwrce.HP.COM ( Ted Johnson):
> I just upgraded my Mac SE from 1 --> 2.5 Megs, and booted off a virgin
> sealed copy of System 6 and was appalled to see that the System file
> took up 1,213k (the Finder took up 160k).  Is this a typical number? 
> I was under the impression (e.g., see the "Exploring MultiFinder Mysteries",
> MacTech Quarterly, Spring '89) that the System only took up 200-300k, and
> the Finder only took up 150k or so.

Sounds like you have a 1024K RAM Cache. Yep, the System Heap is where it goes.

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