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From: dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu
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Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
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Date: 25 Oct 90 21:18:25 GMT
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In article <1990Oct25.183759.10653@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes...
>Patching the memory manager 'on the fly' would be impossible-- you would end up
>invalidating the structures in the system heap.
 I may be mistaken on this, but I believe that Virtual from Connectix
accomplishes something very near this.  If they can make MacOS think that there
is 14 MB of memory when in fact there are only 5, it doesn't seem unlikely that
Apple could patch the memory manager to be 32 bit clean.

david | dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu