brian@granite.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian of ASTD-CP) (10/02/90)
Ok, so here I am with a IIfx upgrade board with bank A filled with 16 Meg of memory, I fire it up, everything works fine except I have no more usable memory than I had before with my 8 Meg mac II. Seems the system snarfed up all the extra memory, leaving me with some- thing less than 6 Meg for apps, about the same I had before. Indeed, "About the Finder" shows the System taking up over 10 Meg! Can anyone explain this to me, and preferably give me a tip as to how I can reduce the greed of the System file? Why should the system (it is and was 6.0.5) suddenly need 8 Meg more memory just because I'm now an fx instead of a lowly II? There was no software change during the upgrade procedure (none seemed to be necessary, and it is a regal pain (take out your fonts, blah blah blah, put them back, etc etc etc) Thnx in Adv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Beckman . . . . . . . . . . brian@granite.jpl.nasa.gov. . . . . . meta-disclaimer: every statement in this message is false . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) (10/19/90)
The "About the Finder" box is lying. Until you get System 7.0, you can't use
more than 8MB. Apple decided that the display should acknowledge that the 16MB
(or 20MB or 32MB) is installed but show that only 8MB is available, and that's
how they did it.
Actually, you can get more available memory with a very nifty program called
Maxima, available from Connectix, the people who did Virtual. They use the
same basic idea to let you use up to 14MB.
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Alexis Rosen
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