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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
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Date: 19 Feb 91 04:28:41 GMT
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In article <44352@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>
>I'm guessing that Optima/128 allows 128 meg RAM with the 32-bit clean machines.
>For reasons I've never manage to understand, ROM upgrades would be required for
>the IIx, cx, and SE/30s out there to use more than 14 or so meg as System
>memory.

Well, actually, not so--  'All' you would have to do is place an entirely new
version of the memory manager and bootstrap code (patched to load the new
memory manager) into high memory, and essentially restart the system.
Somehow I doubt Apple is going to do that.


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