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From: rob@uokmax.uucp (Bolo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IIci vs. IIcx - Virtual Memory
Message-ID: <1990May4.003249.1462@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 4 May 90 00:32:49 GMT
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In article <8904@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER) writes:
>
>virtual memory capabilities for the IIcx and the IIci.  According
>to the June MacUser, regarding how much virtual memory your Mac can
>use, "The rule is 14 megabytes minus 1 megabyte for each NuBus card.
>For the SE/30, that means 14 megabytes; forthe Mac II, which has at
>minimum a video card, no more than 13 megabytes can be used.  The
>exceptions are the IIci and IIfx, on which VM will simulate nearly a   
>gigabyte of memory, if you've got the disk space." ...
>Does anyone know if the limitations for
>Connectix' Virtual are the same?

Virtual allows 15 mb - 1 mb per occupied slot. I'm running it on a Mac II
with the obligatory video card and "About the Finder" shows 14,336k. I
would guess that the comment about the ci and fx implies that the ROM
Memory Manager has been made "32-bit clean" in those machines. It is apparently
NOT clean in the earlier machines.
Anyone know if a ROM swap is in the works, for those of us who can't afford
the (quite reasonable) IIfx upgrade?
	Robert

>WILLETT,THOMAS 
-- 
Robert K. Shull
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