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Jack R Payton <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 May 2001 23:44:18 -0400
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OK, but please explain what "system resources" are. I've tried to
research this question to no avail.
Thanks,

jack payton

On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:08:18 -0400 Hal Trachtenberg <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> > I upgraded from 128M to 256M RAM. "System Resources" was 78 percent
> > "free", before and after. Should this have changed? 256M RAM is
> > recognized by system.
> >
> > Demetri Kolokotronis
>
> Demetri
>
> No!!! There seems to be this common misconception that increasing
> the amount
> of Ram will increase the amount of free resources. This is simply
> not the
> case. The amount of Ram you have has no effect whatsoever on system
> resources.

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