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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: *** THE SYSTEM SNARFED MY MEMORY ***
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.024416.3717@panix.uucp>
Date: 19 Oct 90 02:44:16 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.175021.4056@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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The "About the Finder" box is lying. Until you get System 7.0, you can't use
more than 8MB. Apple decided that the display should acknowledge that the 16MB
(or 20MB or 32MB) is installed but show that only 8MB is available, and that's
how they did it.

Actually, you can get more available memory with a very nifty program called
Maxima, available from Connectix, the people who did Virtual. They use the
same basic idea to let you use up to 14MB.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix
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