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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How much RAM?
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Date: 29 Jan 91 05:17:06 GMT
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In article <231b3679.665112405@fergvax>, 231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu (CS 231 section 2) writes:
> 
> Can someone tell me of a way to find out how much RAM the machine has?  I've
> perused the UMPG, the Memory Mangler, the list of globals, and SysEnvirons(),
> but I can't see a way to do it.  I'd also like to do it without using Gestalt(),
> for (1) I don't have any documentation at all on it, and (2), the routine needs
> to work on Systems older than 6.0.4.

There is a routine called MFTopMem that returns a pointer to the top
of memory.  It's found in either Memory.p or Memory.h.  

I'm not sure which system this first showed up in though.

-- michael


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