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From: kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bit Clean ROM upgrade - list created.
Message-ID: <98@eclectic.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 91 21:30:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.155525.2416@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <0094737E.20BFEEA0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> <1991Apr17.180351.24948@cs.utk.edu>
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In article <1991Apr17.180351.24948@cs.utk.edu> wnn@ornl.gov writes:
>
>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.

While this is true, I'm not going to go pinning this one on Apple.
Before Apple released the 7.0 alphas, I noticed companies already
advertising '030 boards for the Plus/SE/etc. along with guarantees
that I'd work with 7.0 VM.  I called a few and asked how they could
guarantee such a thing when they didn't even have 7.0 alphas to test
with (not that an alpha would even guarantee anything...).

After much hems-and-haws, they admitted that they weren't positive since
they couldn't test with it yet, but "we will be".  Yeah.  Right.

Ken



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