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From: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Why does the system take up 10megs for a IIsi?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.074959.4685@crash.cts.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 07:49:59 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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   I have a friend who just purchased a IIsi with 17megs o memory..
  Now me being the mac guru that I am, he called me over to help him
put the whole thing together...  Anyway, we were playing around with
the neeeto brand colors and stuff and we checked the about finder and
saw that the system file was takeing up about 9347k or something, but
something that was definatly HUGE...
  Naturally, he turned to me and asked "Why?"
  well, being the guru that I was, I felt that I had to give him an 
answer.  "Why ask why?  Drink bud dry" said I, and off we went for a
couple of brews...  Naturally my carefully planned diversion averted 
further threats to my guru like standing, (although it did cost me a couple
of beers heheh)
  Anyway, Why?  Just out of sheer curiousity..   We were using 256 color mode,
nothing like backdrop or any other inits that would take up huge amounts like
that...  40meg hard drive and no math co-processor.
  Thank you for your support.