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From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: another dumb question concerning memory allocation
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Date: 1 Nov 90 01:04:50 GMT
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In article <38948@ut-emx.uucp> nedludd@ut-emx.uucp (whoever) writes:
>I don't get it:  the "about finder" thing says that my *largest*
>(not total, but largest) memory block available is 1800K, but the
>damn computer won't let me boot up a 1500K program--not enough
>memory.  What gives?  What, I say, what am I doing wrong?
>
>The particulars:  IIci, trying to run PageMaker 4.00, buttloads of
>various cdevs and inits (but why should this matter:  they're all
>in the system allocation, right?), 4 megs of memory, &c.
>

This is not such a dumb question.  I find that on my IIci I sometimes
cannot run some of my programs at all!  Usually they run fine, but
sometimes after running other programs I'll try to start a program and get
that sme message "not enough memory" even though no other applications are
running! 

So what is happening?  Why does memory dissapear?  Does the system itself
fragment memory?  It certainly seems odd to me and I'd love to hear an
explanation!

--Walter
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