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From: fdm@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Frank D. Malczewski)
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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 17:24:10 GMT
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In article <12930@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> patten@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Michael Patten) writes:
|| 
||  [quote from Connectix  ANNOUNCES  MODE32  and  MC73]
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|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

you forgot the MacII...

|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

you forgot the MacII, again...

|of RAM just to run our operating systems and an application rather
|than the standard 2Mbytes.

I definitely agree with this (with the exceptions noted above ;-) 

|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?
|

That's nothing.  Apple claimed that the Mac II would be able to address
up to 2GB of RAM (when mounted in the NuBus slots); it's right there in
black and white in its user's manual.

At least one advertising brochure for the II indicated that up to 4GB of 
virtual memory could be addressed.

To my dismay, however, there was never any official indication that
anything beyond 1MB SIMMs could be used in the motherboard's SIMM slots
(although I've not been through all of my boxes yet...).

Just thought that some of the facts about the Mac II should surface,
as most of the attention seems to be on the other 3 non-"32 bit clean"
32-bit Macs.



--Frank Malczewski                        (fdm@wlv.imsd.contel.com)