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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <4508@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 01:54:36 GMT
References: <1982@mountn.dec.com> <1990Oct20.234914.13545@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Oct20.234914.13545@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
>Just a question - some people are claiming that as a result of its
>32-bit dirty (?) ROMs, the SE/30 won't be able to take advantage of
>virtual memory in System 7. Even the "dirty" addressing scheme allows
>24 bits for addressing (which for various reasons probably amounts to
>allowing 14M of clear address space). How many people need more than
>this in the short term? How many people are going to have more than
>10M to spare as swap space on their hard disk anyway?
>
	Indeed. In fact, you can run Virtual on an SE/30 RIGHT NOW, and have
up to 14 MB. If you have money to burn, you can fill the beast up with 4MB
SIMMs, and use Maxima to have up to 14MB as user RAM, and the rest as a RAM
disk which will survive anything short of a power-down.

	Above that, 32-bit mode is only useful to people who have huge amounts
of fast disk space to swap, or have more money than they know what to with, in
which case they buy large amounts of RAM.

R.

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