maymudes@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (David M. Maymudes) (03/15/89)
With all of the people who are selling 4mb SIMMs now, it is quite possible for a MacII(c)(x) owner to have up to 32 Meg of memory installed. In 24-bit addressing mode, you can't address more than 8Mb of RAM. If you switch to 32-bit mode, you can access all of your RAM. But whatever Mac OS call is supposed to tell you where the top of memory is will report at most 8MB as present. Is there any way, short of actually testing by brute force, to determine how much memory is in the machine? (For example, a global variable that recorded the size of the SIMMs in each bank?) --David Maymudes maymudes%husc4@harvard.ARPA maymudes@husc4.harvard.edu maymudes@husc4.UUCP maymudes@HARVUNXU.BITNET ..{seismo, harpo, ihnp4, linus, allegra, ut-sally}!harvard!husc4!maymudes davidm@harvarda.BITNET