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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bits: what's the big deal?
Message-ID: <851@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 16:17:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: taniwha.851
References: <674696625.0@blkcat.FidoNet>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <674696625.0@blkcat.FidoNet> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes:
>
>    So all you netters out there who have been baying and woofing for 32-bit
>clean ROMs, tell me one thing:  what would you do with 32-bits if you got them?
>

In my case I want to run big Verilog models one them (Verilog is a hardware
modelling language) -in this case big means 30-40Mb of REAL RAM - I don't
care about virtual for this application, I want to be able to build models
for entire boards, chips and all, without having to buy Suns to run on
(after all Mac hardware should be designed on Macs not other machines ...).

Whey on Mac IIs - well I have a number of them, I want to stick them in a
corner and run them for a month, I have one 'ci - I want to use that for
my productivity (ie so I can get more work done in the mean time).

Why do I want an Apple product rather than one from Connetix? Because it's
system software and I know from experience that anyone selling system software
for the Mac is in for a lot of trouble, you have to track Apple's every
move and maybe release new versions for every new system release Apple
brings out.

		Paul

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My son is now 2 months old, in that time he has doubled his weight,
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