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From: lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
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Subject: Re: Info on Mac lineage wanted
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Date: 7 Nov 90 08:01:12 GMT
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blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>The SE/30 will take up to 32Mb with 4M SIMMs.  Even with 1M SIMMs, it
>will take 8Mb.  See Tech Note 176 for memory configurations of all
>Macintoshes from the Plus onwards (no, I don't know when the tech note
>will be updated for the 3 new machines; I expect it will be in the next
>batch of release notes.)

Will the current OS address 32 MB of RAM?  It was my understanding that the
way the system software worked currently only allowed 8 MB of RAM, which is
why some 4MB SIMM vendors offer RAM disk software with their chips.  Has this
situation changed?  The "official" word I got a couple months ago from Apple's
AUX Technical support line was "Well, we dont know.  We haven't tried it yet."
So the hardware will let you plug in 32 MB, but can you use it???

(I hope I'm wrong on this one...)

Lawrence Miller