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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: MacNosy
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Date: 23 Sep 89 15:19:36 GMT
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In article <2419@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> rampil@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Ira Rampil) writes:
>{{ Someone complaints about the price differential between
>  the SE and the Mac II version of Nosy}}
>
>Leesee now an SE has 128k ROMS and the II family has 256k.
>What could be the difference?  Ah, all those funny new
>managers like Color stuff, Slot Mgr, Time Mgr.  Ah, new
>multimode processor chip, too!  Sorry to be faciteous, but

	I hate to say this, but: you're wrong.

	The SE has 256K ROMs. Also, the SE and the II have a lot of new
managers in common, with the exception of handlers for the NuBus, Color
QuickDraw, and the MMU. The 68020 does not complicate matters all that much;
you just have to remember that the '020's exception stack frame is two
bytes smaller, and that the 68020 does have some tricky new addressing modes
(which most Mac HLL compilers currently don't use).

	You may have a point, but you should at least make a token
attempt to get your facts straight.

R.



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