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From: sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: system 7.0
Message-ID: <SANDY.91Feb20140448@snoopy.cs.umass.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:04:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: kychen@ucrmath.ucr.edu's message of 20 Feb 91 16:52:47 GMT

> From what I gather, system 7.0 is not
> made for the lower macs like classic,
> se,pluses...etc. Is this true???

This is an old rumor...  I am just back from an Apple 7.0 demo...  The
answer remains: 

        "System 7.0 requires 2M RAM and a hard disk.  Virtual memory
        requires an MMU."

This means a 2M plus will have all 7.0 features except VM.  A 2M Mac
with 7.0 will have about 750K of free memory to run applications (i.e.
the same as a 1M Mac under 6.0).

        /s
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