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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
Keywords: obsolescence
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.122654.9692@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 12:26:54 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.175402.4291@rice.edu> jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
>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.

Good. I've been nothing but pleased with Connectix and have no intention of
abandoning their product. It's sort of ironic that outside companies do a better
job of designing extensions to the Mac OS than Apple does, in most cases.

>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.

I'm using 16MB (4M physical). I understand that NuBus has something to do with
the 14MB limit on the IIs.

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