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From: jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
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Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
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Date: 11 Nov 90 17:54:02 GMT
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Bill,
    As far as Apple's VM not working on the 030 accelerated Pluses or SE's,
according to Connectix claims that Apple's implementation of VM is much
cruder than theirs in terms of how it chooses to cache the virtual memory
in real RAM. They also told me that Virtual will be able to work (perhaps a
upgrade will be needed) under System 7.0 as a replacement for Apple's VM.
So I would say that if you have VM for a 030 SE/Plus you'll be set for 
System 7.0 regardless of what Apple does. Out of curiousity, how much total
VM do you get on a 030 SE under Virtual? I have 8 meg real/14 meg VM on my
SE/30 under Virtual 2.03. Kinda funny even to be worrying about going past
14 Meg considering that DOS people are still kludging around a 640K
memory model.
                                    Jack Howarth