SYstystem takes up 60 megs!!!!

[Darryl J Ong]

I was helping a friend install some software on a new Quadra 900,
which has 64 MB of RAM - when I did About this Macintosh...
It showed the System took up almost 60 MB!!! However when we switched
to 32bit addressing - it shows the system using only 3MB. ( normal, I suppose )
Any ideas on this?

I am rather surprised - this is the first time I've ever seen anything like it.
If anyone out there has any idea,
Please Email me at do...@eureka-gold.wbme.jhu.edu, thanks.

Darryl Ong

ALL STRESSED UP AND NO ONE TO CHOKE!

[David Baird]

Interesting how no-one reads manuals anymore!

You have just discovered the 32-bit memory addressing feature that is
described in the System 7.0 manual. A Macintosh with 32-bit addressing
turned off can only use the first 8 or so megs of memory. The rest of
the available memory is swallowed into the system. With 32-bit
addressing turned on, the Mac can use all the available RAM as RAM.

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[Wyatt A Webb]

To be slightly clearer...

Your system doesn't actually use that space. The memory that cannot be
addressed will appear in the system's memory partition because the
system recognizes that it exists, but it can't address it...

Run 32-bit mode...

-Wyatt