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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II Production Stopped?
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 21:43:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 21:43:45 1987
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In article <4091@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
>The problem is the Slot Manager won't recognize cards with > 1 Megabyte
>of memory (can you say "24-bit video card?") because it doesn't run
>in 32-bit mode.  In the new ROM, the Slot Manager will run in 32
>bit mode, according to the letter.
>
>Today, only the lowest 1 Megabyte of address space of a NuBus card
>is visible to the Slot Manager.  Since declaration ROM has to be at
>the top of the address space, if it uses > 1 Megabyte, the declaration
>ROM "disappears".  Neat, huh?
>
	That's *real* neat! What about those National Semiconductor
NuBus memory expansion cards that have 4, 8, or 16 MB of RAM on them?
Does this mean that they won't work either????!

	NSI's advertising isn't real clear, but were those cards intended
to function under the normal Mac OS, or is UNIX required?

		--Rich



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