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From: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 9 Dec 89 20:02:06 GMT
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In article <9986@zodiac.ADS.COM>, jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes...

[ideas about new Mac deleted]

>	  parameters like "0L", -1 and so forth.  So what if the ROMS and
>	  system get a little larger.  System 7.0 will run only on 68030
>	  boxes anyway.  You have plenty of room to spread out.

Besides being remarkably arrogant, this is wrong.  From what I've read, system
7.0 will run on all Macintosh models from the Plus on up. Systems that lack a
PMMU will not be able to use the virtual memory capability, but all other
features will be accessible.

Apple is evidently trying to avoid having a dual-path computer family, i.e.
machines that run System 6 and machines that run System 7.  This in my opinion
is a good thing; it would truly be a mess for developers to have two Systems
that needed concurrent support.

From the tone of your posting, you are apparently able to afford a 68030 box.
Good.  Fine.  But not everyone can.  Don't sell the Plus and SE short; they
are perfectly serviceable for many uses, and I applaud Apple's efforts to keep
a unified System.

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