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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 32 bit roms
Summary: enough already!
Message-ID: <1991May21.205004.984@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 20:50:04 GMT
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In article <17981@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>In article <1991May20.235050.9248@midway.uchicago.edu> lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller) writes:
>>This is directly from my Mac IIcx Owner's Guide, Appendix A: Technical
>>Information, under the heading "Specifications" (page 88):
>>
>>Memory:  1MB expandable to 8 MB (expandable to 128 MB when SIMMs with higher
>>       density DRAM chips become available; additional expandability through
>>       NuBus slots.
>>
>>I have heard that there are similar statements in SE/30 and Mac II manuals.
>
>Does it say "Under the MacOS Known as the Finder"?  The fact that you
>can access this much memory under A/UX would seem to satisfy this
>claim.
>
>Loophole, but there.

It's a very far-fetched loop-hole.  A/UX is NOT the native operating system
of the machine.  One can safely assume that a computer's manual will
describe the native operating system unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The manual from which the above memory quote is taken does indeed describe
the Macintosh operating system, not A/UX.

Supposedly, Macintosh programs running on 32-bit-dirty machines have the same
RAM restrictions under A/UX as they do under the Macintosh OS, so the loophole
is invalid anyway.  This whole thing is most likely a case of the
documentation team not being told the whole story by the engineers, and of
circumstances changing over time like they always do.  I think we should all
just wait and see what Apple does in the coming months, instead of droning
on and on and on and on and on about what Apple promised or didn't promise
and what it should or shouldn't do.

And another thing: the Finder is a SHELL.  Repeat: the Finder is a SHELL.
The Finder is not an operating system, any more than 'csh' is an operating
system.

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