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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Next rumours from MacWeek
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.194423.854@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:36:13 GMT
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In article <279@atncpc.UUCP>, bruce@atncpc.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes...
 
>In article <1990Jul7.230927.23012@midway.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>> 
[...]
>This is pretty stale though,  Dan'L (some weird spelling) Lewin left to go
>be something importiant at GO corp.  It seems Steve J. told him to produce
>results or go screw up somebody else's company (not a quote at all).

If it's not a quote, why do you say that Steve said it?  It seems unlikely that
Dan'l (you got the spelling almost right) would have been hired as VP of
marketing by GO if he had been "screwing up the company".  Hm, now that Steve's
directly in charge of marketing, sales have gone WAY up, right? :->

[...]
>The Mac The Knife column should be viewed as fictional entertainment, and
>nothing more.  Some of the stuff they print in there are so ludicris (SP?)
>that it seems that the person authoring the column has no understanding 
>of the way things (physically) work.
> 
>Included in this list of stupidity are references to a dedicated Mac Server
>machine due (soon?) with an '040, 64 Meg of Ram, a 300 Watt power supply 
>and room for 4 drives in the case. (May 22nd Mac Week) I guess this guy
>never figured out that the Mac OS is hardwired to an upper limit of 
>14 Meg.  That's right! unless you are running A/UX, that's all the machine
>will address!


It is true that much of the stuff in 'Mac the Knife' is inaccurate.  Some of it
is indeed true though.  They are, after all, just rumours.  And some of the
stuff which sounds wierd might be prototypes that are killed off early in the
process.

BTW, you might want to get a better understanding of the way the Mac works
yourself: as far as I know, with system 7.0 in 32-bit mode, you will be able to
address up to 1 gigabyte of virtual memory on any Mac with '32 bit clean' ROM's
(for now that's the IIci and IIfx, I believe).


Robert


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