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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Why VM? (was Re: New Macintosh Strategy)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 14:41:52 GMT
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In article <1990Oct30.093218.12931@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

>  Except for possibly A/UX, I don't know of any products in the categories
>above that can take advantage of NuBus RAM thanks to the 8MB limit on
>RAM which the Mac OS can handle. This is one thing I'd like to see
>promptly fixed.

If I read the ads correctly, the Maxima RAMdisk software will give you access to
14 meg - 1 meg * # of used NuBus slots of OS RAM in a manner similar to the
way Virtual gives you virtual memory.