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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <19949@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 19:24:20 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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In article <1991Mar15.092920.16477@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

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

>>Certainly not MOST Mac IIs.  

>  Hmm... you must have been thinking of beer last night Dave.  2 banks of SIMMs
>= 8 SIMMs * 16MB each = 128MB.  

I was under the impression the Macs used standard 30 pin SIMMs.  Apparently
only the IIci does, which does in fact limit it to 32MB.  These standard parts
have parity support.  If you eliminate the two parity support pins, you do
in fact have enough address to allow for 128MB in the same space.  I assume
that's what Apple does.

>  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??

They never officially announced a date for that.  When was System 7.0 supposed
to be available?  Seems I read about it in BYTE two years ago or so.  You know,
before they started cutting out features (yes, another cheap shot, but it is
after all Monday...).

>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   

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