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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: Re: 32 bit roms
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Date: 23 May 91 06:40:03 GMT
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lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller) writes:

LRM> This is directly from my Mac IIcx Owner's Guide, Appendix A: 
LRM> Technical Information, under the heading "Specifications" (page 
LRM> 88): 
LRM> Memory: 1MB expandable to 8 MB (expandable to 128 MB when SIMMs 
LRM> with higher  density DRAM chips become available; additional 
LRM> expandability through  NuBus slots. 
LRM> I have heard that there are similar statements in SE/30 and Mac 
LRM> II manuals. 
LRM> Obviously, you have not looked at very much literature. 

Au contraire.  Mr. Spencer knows _exactly_ of what he speaks; he _has_ read the manuals.  He read exactly what you read:  that the machine, the hardware, your SE/30 sitting on a table, can physically accept 128MB of RAM.  What Mr. Spencer sees is what I see, and what you are overlooking completely:  that Apple never made any statements of any kind concerning the conditions under which that lump of plastic and metal and chips can actually use the 128MB of RAM.  Go back and read your manual, sir.  Better yet







, read what I've quoted you as repeating from your manual.  Apple makes no warrantees concerning how you can use that memory.  Go forth and get A/UX.  Use it all.  But Apple never, ever made any claims that its Macintosh operating system would ever take advantage of it all in your SE/30.

So, read it first, consider it for awhile, _then_ post.  Don't post, then read.  Wastes bandwidth.

--Adam--
 
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