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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Addressable memory of 68000 (was Re: New Macs)
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Date: 5 Jul 90 13:35:52 GMT
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In article <1990Jul5.063108.14564@chinet.chi.il.us> magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes:

>The current Mac OS memory limitation of 8 meg. is a matter of Apple design.
>OS space (rom and hardware address?) were mapped to start at 8 meg. because,
>at the time, it was inconceivable that anyone could want more memory than that!

Or at least it was to a certain apple.person who made a similar statement to
the effect of "nobody will ever use all 16K of the Apple ]["....

Come on, now, the IBMs and the Lisas of the time had more memory than the mac.
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