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From: patten@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Michael Patten)
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Subject: Re: Press Release - Connectix cleans Mac ROMs!!
Keywords: 32-bit clean, software, tons of RAM
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Date: 9 May 91 02:33:45 GMT
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In article <1454@radius.com> radius!lemke@apple.com (Steve Lemke) writes:
> 
>Connectix  ANNOUNCES  MODE32  and  MC73
> 
>Menlo Park, California, April 30, 1991 -- Connectix Corporation today
>announced two new products that offer Mac-II class systems complete
>compatibility with the powerful memory features of System 7.0.  MODE32 is a
>software utility that enables Mac II, IIx, IIcx, and SE/30 systems to run
>in standard System 7 32-bit mode in the same manner as the more recent Mac
>II-family systems.  MC73 is the PMMU memory coprocessor needed to run Apple
>VM or Connectix Virtual on the original Mac II.
>

Oh great, is this Apple's way out of getting up-to-date ROM SIMMs into
the IIx, IIcx, and SE/30 and drumming up business for the third party
developers in the process?  Yet another INIT for my already 
huge System Folder.  With all the patches we need to run the current
operating system, and those we will need for System 7, I would guess
that IIx, IIcx, and SE/30 owners are going to need at least 3Mbytes
of RAM just to run our operating systems and an application rather
than the standard 2Mbytes.

Yes, I'm exaggerating a bit here.  But didn't Apple exaggerate a little
when they sold us machines that they claimed would address 128Mbytes
of RAM instead of the 14Mbytes it could really access?

Brian
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