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From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Class-action lawsuit (was Re: Price cuts on m
Message-ID: <1991May22.104923.416@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 21 May 91 23:38:09 GMT
References: <1991May19.033448.23080@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <11471@ncar.ucar.edu>
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In article <11471@ncar.ucar.edu>, murphy@hao.hao.ucar.edu (Murphy) writes:
> 
> 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.

There's one problem with this - I seem to remember when Apple
first brought A/UX out that they stated that although it would
run on an SE/30 - it "would not be supported". Is this still a
correct statement? And what implications does this have on the
above?

-- 
See ya
                                Nigel.
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