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From: emmayche@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacII->fx upgrade: Memory Muncher??
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.220427.10435@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 6 Oct 90 22:04:27 GMT
References: <3873@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: emmayche@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Hartman)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <3873@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>,
pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul BIG-EARS Menon) writes:

>  I have observed this on a MacIIfx which was upgraded from a MacII.
>        System takes up > 8Mb (via "About Finder").  What's going on?  
>        No change when switching twixt MultiFinder and Finder.
>        Cache was off.
>        I saw the same thing happen on the same machine with System 7.0a.

If you have the Virtual Memory INIT installed, Paul, you will see this
happening; it's just how it works.

If this isn't the case, I'd suggest you reinstall from known-good original
disks.
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