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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: My "System" eats all my System 7 Virtual Memory
Keywords: system 7, virtual memory, no 32-bit
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.091617.3665@verity.com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 09:16:17 GMT
References: <rae.664398632@barney>
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In-Reply-To: rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Reid Ellis)

In article <rae.664398632@barney>, rae@gpu (Reid Ellis) writes:
>I'm running System 7.0b on a Mac IIci with 8Mb of real RAM.
>
...
>
>What is it that the system is doing?  Is it swapping a ton of code
>into memory to handle the virtual memory?


This is probably the same limitation that people run into with Virtual
and Maxima from Connectix - the NuBus is geographically addressed, so
each card that you have installed in the NuBus eats up 1Mb of address
space.  I'm not sure what happens on the IIci's 'phantom slots', but I
would venture a (tenuous) guess that that address space is not
available.

anders