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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why 350k of RAM "missing"?
Message-ID: <881@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:36:04 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.185551.1576@burrhus.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1991Jun26.185551.1576@burrhus.harvard.edu> kik@isr.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) writes:
>
>On a Mac IIsi running System 7, whenever I choose "About This Macintosh..."
>and add up all of the memory in use
>and unused, it always comes out to about 350k less than total memory.  This
>is with 5 meg or 9 meg (just upgraded), with or without extensions off, and
>even immediately after startup with extensions off and no nothing opened
>(except the About This Macintosh... thing).

Actually it's a clever and sneaky hack by the guy at Apple who did VM,
his Mac doesn't actually have any RAM in it, he just sneaks 350k odd
of space out of everyone elses ..... :-)

Actually, it's the space used by the "About this Macintosh ..." dialog :-)

well really I don't know .... maybe rounding between 1K and 1024 somewhere

	Paul

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