From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo)
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Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???
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Date: 21 May 91 02:06:09 EST

autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:

LA> A previously posted article stated that Apple literature made the statement
LA> that Macs could address up to x amount of memory.  More specifically, in my
LA> SE/30 hardware manual, the promise is explicitly made.  The statement is
LA> made to the effect, that  the SE/30 will address up to 128 megabytes of
LA> memory when denser memory becomes available.  I call that an explicit 
LA> promise.  

    Yes, but has that time come?  Assume that the largest commercially available
SIMMs are 4Mb.  Unless I'm mistaken, the SE/30 (like the SE) only has four
SIMM slots.  Since there are no NuBus video cards or other complications, your
SE/30 should be able to address all 16Mb of physical RAM in 24-bit mode.

    Apple won't be put to the test until the next generation of SIMMs (16Mb?)
becaome available in a year or two.  (There's even reports that 64Mbit chips
will be out by 1995.)

    
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