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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.092920.16477@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 91 09:29:20 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>In article <1991Mar14.182414.11033@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>>>with a full 32-bit bus running at 25MHz, built in 32-bit SCSI and

>>  Is this SCSI-2?  SCSI-1 is an 8-bit protocol.

>>  Well, you can put 128MB on the motherboard of a Mac II today... not
>>that it's really relevant.

>Certainly not MOST Mac IIs.  The IIcx here in my lab only has two banks of
>SIMMs.   It supports (at least I think it does...) up to 16Mbit SIMMs, which 
>would give you 32MB, if fully populated.  

  Hmm... you must have been thinking of beer last night Dave.  2 banks of SIMMs
= 8 SIMMs * 16MB each = 128MB.  A firm demonstrated just such a setup
at January's MacWorld (of course I wouldn't like to pay for that much memory!)

>It is a moot point, since the Mac 
>OS can't use more that 16MB (sure, cheap shot, but it was a big target...).

  Depends what version of the OS you're using, 6.0 or 7.0.

>Well, that's what Apple is announcing this year.  Like CDTV, or Mac OS release
>7, we'll believe it when it's out.

  Apple has a better track record than Commodore of making products
available immediately upon announcement...  when was that OS 2.0
for non-3000 owners supposed to be available??

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