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From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why does the system take up 10megs for a IIsi?
Message-ID: <676094904.1@blkcat.FidoNet>
Date: 4 Jun 91 22:22:24 GMT
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ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey) writes:

EB> In article <1991Jun4.074959.4685@crash.cts.com> kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin
EB> Hill) writes:
EB> >
EB> >   I have a friend who just purchased a IIsi with 17megs o memory..
EB> >     ...  the system file was takeing up about 9347k or something, but
EB> >   something that was definatly HUGE...
EB> 
EB> Try running Sys 7 in 32-bit mode... That should solve your problems.
EB> 
EB> This is related to a few other discussions floating around... The Mac
EB> can't address more than about 10 meg of memory (some people say 13, some
EB> people say 8, I'm not sure WHO'S right!) in 24-bit mode.  When this
EB> happens the remaining memory is attributed to "System".

    Alternatively, you could just turn on VM to get at 13 Mb, if your  apps
don't like 32-bit mode. 

   (What would VM do if you set it to a size smaller than available real RAM?)


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