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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Max RAM on SE/30 and II's?
Keywords: memory RAM mac
Message-ID: <1990May28.174226.19370@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 May 90 17:42:26 GMT
References: <41391@apple.Apple.COM> <16786@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <41391@apple.Apple.COM>, marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes:
> (3) RAM disks are nice things.
No, they're not. RAM caches are a much better idea - you don't have to
preload them, and theey fill up with the stuff you actually use. Would
it be a huge extra effort for Apple to redesign the memory allocation
for the RAM cache so it could take advantage of such "extra" memory (above
the 8M limit the OS currently recognizes)? Maybe this problem will be
fixed in System 7 ...

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu