27 Jan
2001
27 Jan
'01
6:46 p.m.
Yoo ain't foolin' me, boy. How else would you
explain that my IIci immediately
recognised the 16 MB I added into it (before, it had only run on 8), and
immediately found a way for the OS to take over the absolute majority of that
memory, leaving me with about as much (little) free memory as before.
Because, IIRC, the MacOS kernel is partially compressed and uncompresses
itself to whatever amount will comfortably fit in memory (at least in System
7). When I had 4MB in my IIsi, MacOS took up 2.2MB. When I had eight, it went
to 3.9. This also accounts for the speed increase you see by stuffing more
memory into older Macs (observations made on System 7.1.2).
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