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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MODE32 from Connectix
Message-ID: <1991May8.141805.22208@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 8 May 91 14:18:05 GMT
References: <4850@orbit.cts.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <4850@orbit.cts.com>, by granteri@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Grant Erickson):
> Judging by this week's MacLEAK, Connectix will be releasing an extension
> (INIT) called MODE32, that will allow owners of the Macintosh II, IIcx, IIx,
> and SE/30 to run in 32-Bit processing mode. Therefore allowing them to address
> 128 Megs of  physical RAM and 1 Gig of virtual memory. Funny how Connectix
> comes out with these products just as people start clammoring to Apple for
> them. Any comments from those on the push for a ROM upgrade?

The more-detailed rumor (from Jim Gaynor, who actually phoned up Connectix
for confirmation) is that MODE32 will be available around 6/1, to give them
a chance to soak with the real live distributed 7.0.

Assuming MODE32 performs as described, it provides a TECHNICAL solution to
the 32-bit-dirty-ROM issue.  However, it is important to remember that only
some of the MacOS is in ROM, and that Apple can (and must) change the more
volatile parts of the MacOS.  That's why Connectix wants to soak against
7.0, and why Connectix will have to soak against 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.1, etc.
ad infinitum.  The key issue is the relationship between Apple and Connectix
and Connectix's support relationship with its customers.

Apple has a checkered past in this regard: some third parties are
well-connected and well-cared-for, some aren't; and it's not the sort
of thing anyone discusses in polite company.

=Ned Horvath=
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=Ned Horvath=
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