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From: pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul BIG-EARS Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MacII->fx upgrade: Memory Muncher??
Message-ID: <3873@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 Oct 90 04:41:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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hi,
  I have observed this on a MacIIfx which was upgraded from a MacII.
  The fx contains ..

	3 cards (1 Ethernet, 2 Display cards, all Apple),
	  right justified, ie away from the power supply.
	
	800k Floppy (Internal).

        Hard disk.
	
	4*4Mb Simms.

***PROBLEM***
	System takes up > 8Mb (via "About Finder").  What's going on?  
	No change when switching twixt MultiFinder and Finder.
	Cache was off.

	This was also the case with the installation disk, which would
	be a reduced System (and not using MultiFinder).  The same disk
	(install) took ~427k System memory space on a IIci.

	Is System 6.05 ready for 4Mb Simms? 
	Is the problem the memory (stuffed)?
	Is it hardware?

	I saw the same thing happen on the same machine with System 7.0a.

 ***************

Whats Up Doc?


    Paul Menon,
    Dept of Computer Science,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 
    124 Latrobe Street,
    Melbourne 3001, 
    Victoria, Australia.

pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU
PH:	+61 3 660 3209