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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: New Macs
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 05:02:45 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 05:02:45 1987
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>	I always thought that Unix offered full multitasking. Admittly that
>is not the primary OS coming with the machine anybody putting the full 8megs
>of ram onto the motherboard or even going all the way to 2gigabytes of memory
>will want Unix.
>
>	Nick

	I will rephrase my statement: The Macintosh Operating System on the
Mac II will not support full multitasking.   Frankly I don't see much use
in putting 16Meg on the machine unless you plan to run UNIX on it.

	In fact, 16Meg is all you can stick in a Mac II... not 2 gig.  (This
is not a flame.  After all, the Amiga's max is 8Meg).  Never assume you have
the entire address space of the processor to work with.  In many cases, an
address space is split up into several sections.  VAXen for instance split 
Their 32 bit address space into four quarters (with the last one reserved by
DEC).  The Amiga utilizes some amount of it's address space for ROM, 
Co-processor/IO, and external cards. xxxUnihoutho