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From: lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 32 bit roms
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Date: 24 May 91 18:40:12 GMT
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In article <266625.283C328D@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
[quote from me deleted to save space; go back & read it if you want]
>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 ye









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>, 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.

[Above text is all quoted; Adam.Frix doesn't seem to use returns in his
postings, though]

Nowhere in my manual does it say that the Specifications section refers only
to the hardware.  When I bought my Mac, I purchased a liscense to run the
Mac system software.  The system software I recieved with my machine, and
subsequent updates to it fail to meet the Specifications laied out in the
Owner's Guide.  Period.

I am perfectly aware of the fact that Apple doesn't warrant the machine to
do anything, and is sold "as is."  I didn't say that they _had_ warrented the
machine to meet it's specifications.  I'm not a lawyer, so I'll withhold from
commenting on whether or not I think that Apple has a legal commitment to fix
the defects.  However, I find their failure to meet published specifications
in both hardware and software, and their apparent refusal to fix the problem
most unimpressive in any event.

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

Do you really think I typed in the quote without reading it or thinking about
it?  If you want to insult me, please to it by email.  I would prefer to keep
discussions on the Net civil.  However, I will note that I made no mention of
the SE/30 you seem to think I own in my post.  The quote was from a IIcx
manual.  Please read carefully yourself!

Lawrence Miller