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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PMMU question
Message-ID: <2588@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 24 Oct 89 05:34:05 GMT
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Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
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In article <27044.2543231E@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:

>I recently flipped through a very new (1989) book about the Mac II
>(obviously written before the 030 machines came out, but published
>afterwards).  It was allegedly a technical treatment of the machine, but I 
>didn't look at it that closely.  What I did read was that HMMU stood for
>"Hochsprung Memory Management Unit" or some such thing.  Now, I know
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   It is not entirely clear that this is not the correct name for the
thing.  However, the technical staff at Apple have never seemed above a joke
once in a while on a nonessential matter.  The marketing folks have no such
sense of humor, though.
   By the way, this is why the original Mac had 128K of RAM.



                -- Mark Wilkins
                   wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu