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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Addressable memory of 68000 (was Re: New Macs)
Message-ID: <42675@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 20:32:02 GMT
References: <1990Jul4.003731.336@hellgate.utah.edu> <26708@netnews.upenn.edu> <1990Jul5.063108.14564@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Jul5.133552.24190@eng.umd.edu>
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russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

>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.
Really?  When did DOS out-of-the-box start using more than 640K?!?  I also
seem to remember another machine of the same time period that only allowed
512K (the original IBM PC/XT).  No, nobody (myself included) expected that
anyone other than ourselves would even BE ABLE to use more than xMB (where x
is some arbitrary number ;-).

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