stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) (01/12/89)
Hi All. Is there a prescribed way to find out how much memory a
a Macintosh may have (total memory)?.
Like any beginner at programming, the answer is probably staring me
right in the face but I can't see it. I'm using LSC 3.01. If anyone
would care to e-mail me a few pointers (no pun intended.. really :-))
I'd very much appreciated it.
Thanks in advance,
Stu.
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__________________________________________________________________________ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) (01/12/89)
In article <245@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes: >Hi All. Is there a prescribed way to find out how much memory a >a Macintosh may have (total memory)?. Before MultiFinder, you could just read MemTop. Now, MF diddles MemTop to spoof applications that depend on it in perverse ways. There is a new method described (incorrectly) in The Macintosh Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder (6/3/88) with a correction noted in Tech Note 205. I haven't got the former, but what I glean from the latter is that _MFMemTop returns a pointer to the top of physical RAM. Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 "Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for: God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)