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From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: How would you like an extra 500K of RAM for free?
Message-ID: <7736@santra.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 05:52:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: santra.7736
Posted: Sat Oct  3 05:52:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 07:44:17 EDT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Keywords: RAM, video, Mac II, MultiFinder, RAMDisk

The basic Macintosh II has 1M of RAM. When you add an apple video card, you get
256K or 512K of video RAM. A single bit plane uses about 38K of this memory and
even the full 8-bit graphics mode uses only 300K. This leaves you with at least
212K of free memory. This is just enough for a System Heap under MultiFinder or
it could at least be used for a RAMDisk. I think that although this works only
on an Apple Video Card, someone could write a patch that optionally would make
use of the VRAM.

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi