Re: IIgs

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <441bcb$5iv@styx.uwa.edu.au>, jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
(Joseph Turner) wrote:

>  Hi, I have just got myself a IIgs and I am pretty excited but at the 
>moment have a few questions.
> The System I am using is an old one ....system 4. And the IIgs I am 
>using is a ROM 1 512k IIgs. 
>  Firstly, when I get into the chooser I cannot seem to make a ram disk 
>because when I continue and try and load the system, the system says I do 
>not have enough memory to make the ramdrive, although it lets me get to 
>that point. One thing I have noticed is that ticks appear next to the 
>left column when I put in 0k.
>
you NEED more RAM.. 512K isn't enough to do squat.  The general consensus
is that while 2MB is doable, things are much better with 4Meg.

The RAM drive is memory set aside from total system memory to use as a
ramdisk.  this RAM is thus not avaialble for use by programs - such as the
operating system.  (see why 4MB is de-rigour?)

the checkmark merely means that 0K is th default value 

also related, get system 6.0.1 - downloadable from GEnie or Delphi
onlineservices, or it SHOULD be available at your local user group.  Of
course, you will NEED more RAM to run it.

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