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From: murphy@hao.hao.ucar.edu (Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Class-action lawsuit (was Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???)
Summary: Operating system?
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Date: 20 May 91 07:41:42 GMT
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Before you go calling your lawyers to sue Apple for false or
misleading statements, does the same SE/30 manual that indicates
the address space as >>16MB, simultaneously state that this will
be available under the Macintosh Operating System?

As a reality check, I'm sending this from a MacII which has the
old 24-bit roms, but with a full 32-bit address space ... I run A/UX.

Citing A/UX may seem like a sneaky loophole, but isn't
that what much of the law is all about? :-)

The point is, Apple does indeed already produce and support an
operating system that allows you to use the full address space
of the Motorola 680x0 family ... you just have to go out and buy
it! Unless the SE/30 manual states explicitly that the full
32-bit address space will be available under a future MacOS ...
there is no breach of promise.


Graham Murphy

p.s. I couldn't check any of this with my MacII manuals, as there
appears to be no comparable claim regarding address space ... A/UX 
hadn't been released by then.

High Altitude Observatory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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