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From: rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 32 bit addressing
Keywords: VM, 32bit, 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May11.190833.18802@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 19:08:33 GMT
References: <1991May10.155244.29589@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <1991May10.155244.29589@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> wangh@beasley.ucs.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
>For those who are so proud of system 7.0, I have a little question:
>Why can't I get 32 bit addressing on my SE/30? Dirty ROM? Software
>patch impossible? Then why there is a third party INIT to let me
>get 32 bit addressing? I really doubt the ability of System 7 design

I wouldn't crow about Mode32 until it's been fully tested (and deubgged.)
Virtual is a great product, and I've used it on my II for a long time,
but it took a LOT of time and revisions to get it to work with MOST
software (and there's still stuff I have to reboot without it to use.)

>team. They've spend so much time to design, write, and debug, and

Perhaps there were more important parts of the system to work on than
giving people with old machines the ability to use more than 14 megs
of VM. Just because it's not in there doesn't mean they couldn't do it.

Besides, the price is right on System 7.0. It costs less RETAIL than
the DISCOUNTED price of Connectix Virtual alone. Also, it appears to be
VERY stable. And the new features are very nice. Just because it's
missing a feature YOU happened to want is no reason to call the people
that worked on it incompetent. It makes you sound like a petulant child
(mommy, mommy they left out 32-bit ROM's... waaaahhhhh. I'm gonna take
my toys and go home, so there)

>ADVERTISING 7.0, but it is still broken (IMHO).

Funny, can't say I've seen anyone from the System 7 design team
advertising it. What TV stations have YOU been watching?

Besides, if there's a market for it, Apple will sell ROM upgrades.
And people will complain because they aren't free.

(Public question: Do you think $169 is a fair price for Connectix
new "clean ROM" patch? Do you think it would be a fair price for
an Apple ROM upgrade? Why or why not?)

>Guangliang He
>ghe@physics.orst.edu

Robert Shull
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Robert K. Shull
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