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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How can you "give" an app >9999k under MultiFinder?
Message-ID: <9526@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 90 17:25:28 GMT
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In article <1990Jul31.175259.22485@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>Under A/UX 2.0b9, at least, I can give Digital Darkroom >14 meg (I did it by
>using ResEdit to change the SIZE resource; thanks to those who gave advice).  I
>haven't tried it under Virtual yet, though.

The difference is that A/UX is running in 32-bit mode.  In 24-bit mode, the
ROMs are still located at 8Mb in the virtual address space.  The result is
that the largest contiguous block of memory is only 8Mb (or so).
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