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From: jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Some System 7 questions...
Message-ID: <1991May31.155150.5074@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 15:51:50 GMT
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> 3) Why won't the system use the pretty floppy disk icon when I'm in 8-bit
>    mode?  It persists in using the 1-bit icon.  Incidentally, for you IIsi
>    owners out there, I *highly* recommend the tip circulation about setting
>    the RAM cache to 768k -- it at least doubles video performance!

Did Apple change the caching algorithm?  If not, why the huge cache?
I'd heard that the cache was pretty much a waste of RAM if it got over
some small number, say 128k (remember when that was how much RAM Macs
came with?  I owned one of those).

Inquiring minds want to know.

Jim