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From: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Another NEED for 32bit ROM upgrade...
Message-ID: <1991May1.160224.4149@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 May 91 16:02:24 GMT
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In article <836@taniwha.UUCP> paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
>Aha! .... A/UX runs both 24-bit and 32-bit systems, A/UX does this on
>all Mac II class systems, including the ones that Apple claims can not
>run 32-bit mode due to ROM bugs therefore Apple must already have a software
>patch for the ROM bugs that runs under A/UX, if they can do it for
>A/UX they can do it for the MacOS as well ... OK Apple why not??
This is not necessarily true. A/UX is a different OS, and surely doesn't
generally use the Mac memory manager. In 32-bit mode, are Mac applications (in
the "multiFinder environment") able to access any more memory than without A/UX
on a 32-bit dirty machine? If they are, then you are right. If not, then the
"bug fix" doesn't exist.

Philip Machanick