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From: lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 32 bit addressing
Keywords: VM, 32bit, 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May12.192202.25972@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 19:22:02 GMT
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In article <1991May12.171226.3799@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> wangh@beasley.CS.ORST.EDU (Haiyan Wang) writes:
>As a netter posted, Apple now has more important thing to do than let those
>OLD mac owner (myself included, a sad SE/30 owner) to have a 32 bit clean
>machine. :-(. 
>
>If I were Apple, I probably will do the same. Because your $$ is already in
>my pocket, why should I care about 32bit clean IIcx, SE/30? :-( 

Hmmm.  Perhaps because instead of buying a IIfx or IIci to get > 11-14MB of
memory, we'll go out and buy NeXTs (or SPARCs, or...).  Customer loyalty is
an important thing, because at some point in the future, those of us who
purchased non-32 bit clean Macs are going to need to buy new machines.
Having already recieved one machine which fails to perform as advertised (and
as specified in the manual), how anxious are you to purchase another possibly
defective machine from Apple?

Apple might already have our $$s in their pockets, but they would probably like
more :^)

Lawrence Miller