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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why 350k of RAM "missing"?
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.064944.23485@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 06:49:44 GMT
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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 . . . it always comes out to about 350k 
>less than total memory....
>
>Does anyone know what's the scoop?  Is this a FAQ I missed?  (I saw the
>recent thread about huge memory "losses", but this is different.)  Thanks 
>for any info, and apologies if this has been discussed to death already.
>
>Ken Kreshtool (kik@wjh12.harvard.edu)
 
This is the price of free video:  you've just found where your built-in
video's memory is. 
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
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