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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bits: what's the big deal?
Message-ID: <1991May24.003946.16354@verity.com>
Date: 24 May 91 00:39:46 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ph@ssd.kodak.com (Pete Hoch)

In article <1991May23.211530.21503@ssd.kodak.com>, ph@ssd (Pete Hoch) writes:
>One question.  I have 20 meg in my Mac IIfx however under system 7 I can
>only use 8Mb in 24-bit mode.  I thought I would get 13-16Mb.  Does anyone
>have an idea what is wrong?

Well, if you turn on virtual memory you can get more, but I'm not sure
if you get it from backup storage or from extra ram.  Anyone know if
24-bit VM uses real memory beyond 8Mb?

anders