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From: jose@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Jose M. Rosado Roman)
Subject: Re: Why does the system take up 10megs for a IIsi?
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 02:51:11 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.025111.5610@calvin.ee.cornell.edu>
References: <1991Jun4.074959.4685@crash.cts.com> <1991Jun4.145838.2819@Think.COM>
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In article <1991Jun4.145838.2819@Think.COM> ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey) writes:
>
>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
>
Let's see now 2 to the 24th would give you 16MEG minus what the mac uses up
for rom, interface cards, etc..
With 32bit you would have upto 4GIGA??? minus system reqs...  I'd like
4 gigabytes of RAM but with my mac+ I would have to wait a day to see
the extensions come up on the screen at startup!!!

Say isn't there a nasty/dirty way to get 16MEG on a plus...  Anybody
know of any way to do a ROM upgrade to a plus?
Seems scarey to me that we talk about the plus now the way we used to
talk about the 256K, but times they are a changin' but I'm sticking
with my plus (It's that or a Heathkit H19!!!)

Sure would like to have 4GIGA though... ;-)

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