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Subject: Re: 32-bit Clean ROM upgrade - list created.
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Date: 17 Apr 91 18:03:51 GMT
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In article <0094737E.20BFEEA0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu>
price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
> ... do you really think that there would be that much 
>demand for this?  I mean, sure, eventually programs will get so big that 
>you'll need more than 16Mb of memory to use them, but I can't see myself 
>needing that much for quite some time yet.

On the Mac XL, 512ke, Plus, the limit is 4MB and that is definitely too little
to run System 7.0 and only two of some of the newer programs. Many users of
these older machines have purchased accelerator boards, some even '030 in the
erroneous belief that they would be able to use System 7.0 with virtual memory.

Wolfgang N. Naegeli
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