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From: brian@granite.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian of ASTD-CP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: *** THE SYSTEM SNARFED MY MEMORY ***
Summary: only 6M of app mem on IIfx (help plz)
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Date: 1 Oct 90 17:50:21 GMT
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Ok, so here I am with a IIfx upgrade board with bank A filled with
16 Meg of memory, I fire it up, everything works fine except I have
no more usable memory than I had before with my 8 Meg mac II.  Seems
the system snarfed up all the extra memory, leaving me with some-
thing less than 6 Meg for apps, about the same I had before.  Indeed,
"About the Finder" shows the System taking up over 10 Meg!

Can anyone explain this to me, and preferably give me a tip as to
how I can reduce the greed of the System file?  Why should the system
(it is and was 6.0.5) suddenly need 8 Meg more memory just because
I'm now an fx instead of a lowly II?  There was no software change
during the upgrade procedure (none seemed to be necessary, and it is
a regal pain (take out your fonts, blah blah blah, put them back,
etc etc etc)

Thnx in Adv

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