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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)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 01:50:49 GMT
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passaret@brahe.crd.ge.com ("Mr. Mike" Passaretti) writes:
>In article <1991Mar15.092920.16477@neon.Stanford.EDU> 
>torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>#
># >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.

>up.  Oh well.  Guess I'll go out and get System 7.0.  What? I
>can't buy that?  For ANY Mac?  Oh.  So I should put 128MB in and
>not see 120MB of it?  Great idea there.  

  Of course, the Mac OS is not the only game in town.  A/UX works fine
with >8MB of memory.  In fact, it works a lot better with 20MB, which
is what a lot of A/UX people seem to have. 
  Incidentally, there is a product (Optima), which lets you make use
of that extra memory above the 8MB in MacOS mode.  This was being
bundled with the 128MB system being shown.  Admittedly it was only a
partial solution - I don't think Multifinder would recognise it (only
the Finder), but it did allow you to make some use of that memory
until System 7.0 came round.

>#   >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??

>Commodore has not yet announced the release of that product.
>Shall I repeat that?  

  That is not what I read from the press releases around when the
A3000 was released.  As I recall, the press releases announced a
release for non 3000 owners sometime "in the fall".  This is only
going from memory though, since I don't have those releases on hand.
  Apple of course, has also taken it in the back for their "before
Christmas"  - whooops, make that "first half of 91" release.  My point
was that Apple does this less often than Commodore.

>#define CHEAP_SHOT

  Sorry, but it missed the target [P.S.  Class of 199? => grad school]








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