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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
Subject: Re: Why does the system take up 10megs for a IIsi?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.145838.2819@Think.COM>
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 14:58:38 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..
>                             ...  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...

Try running Sys 7 in 32-bit mode... That should solve your problems.

This is related to a few other discussions floating around... The Mac
can't address more than about 10 meg of memory (some people say 13, some
people say 8, I'm not sure WHO'S right!) in 24-bit mode.  When this happens
the remaining memory is attributed to "System".

(I sure wish *I* had 17 megs in *my* IIsi!!!)

--Erik

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