> 512 MB of ram on G4?

[Donald Cowart]

Actually MacOS limits the amount availible to running apps as 999M.  I was
purchasing a G4 and read that on Apple's Website.  It was a while ago
and I don't remember if it was for OS9 or 8.X, though.

Donald Cowart  (dcowart at acld.lib.fl.us)
Network Manager
Alachua County Library District
Gainesville, FL

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Josh Huber wrote:

> > No, 768MB is the maximum on chrp (B50), the newer PowerMacs can handle
> > only that 703M. I have no reports about oldworlds.
>
> one would think that this is a linux limitation then?  Apple's store sells
> G4s with 1.5G, so one would hope that at least macos could handle it.  For
> some reason I doubt it can, but why would they sell machines with that much
> memory?
>
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> Josh
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