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From: jbr0@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.a.brownlee)
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Subject: Re: 32 bit addressing
Keywords: VM, 32bit, 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May13.163356.14231@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 13 May 91 16:33:56 GMT
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In article <1991May13.144245.4435@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> cjeff@ghoti.lcs.mit.edu
(Carl J.M. Alexander) writes:
>cs421317@umbc5.umbc.edu (Gary Goldberg) asks a few questions about 
>Apple and 32-bit ROMs....
> this 'feature' was advertised as a selling point when I bought my machine
> This is really the crux of the matter.  [...]

Of course it is.  I bought a IIcx in part because of its potential capacity for
using a large amount of memory, especially after being locked into 4MB on a
Plus.

>                                                        [...]    And that
> makes us not cry-babies but potential plaintiffs in a class-action suit.
> Of course Apple is well aware of the fact that, merits aside, they would
> probably not lose such a suit.

Why should Apple be guaranteed to win?  Sure they have a lot of lawyers and
deep pockets.  However, in this case, they are simply in the wrong.  They
promised me and a lot of other Mac owners the ability to address up to 128 MB
of memory.  It is clearly printed in my owner's manual.  As things stand now,
this is simply not the case.  Sure I can have a huge RAM disk, but that's not
what they said -- they said I could *address* 128 MB.  I can't.

In fact, I think those of us who have been clamoring for a ROM upgrade are
being quite patient and reasonable.  We are willing to wait for the upgrade to
be available, and we are also willing to pay for it.  Quite reasonable for
people would could easily make the case that they were the victims of false
advertising.  If Apple wants to silence things, all they need to do is make the
statement that they will be providing such a ROM upgrade at some point.

Another way to look at this is as an issue of customers clamoring for a product.
If Apple doesn't want to provide its customers with what they want, they'll go
elsewhere.  Perhaps not for ROMS (since they can't), but certainly for future
machine purchases.

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