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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why does the system take up 10megs for a IIsi?
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Date: 5 Jun 91 03:09:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.074959.4685@crash.cts.com>, kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill) writes:
>    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?"

Did you have 32-bit addressing enabled?  If not, then the system heap includes
the system RAM plus all of the non-addressable RAM.

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