Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Personal Nightmare (Re: When will MacOS get virtual memory?) Message-ID: <815@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 5 Oct 88 11:43:21 GMT References: <5624@zodiac.UUCP> <76000290@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@etive.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U Lines: 32 In article <76000290@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >I guess if Apple really intended to support virtual memory soon in all >macintoshes, then it would have put a 68020 or at least a 68010 in the >Mac SE. But since most machines (SE's, Plus's) have the 68000, these >machines will not have virtual memory any time soon. I have this recurring nightmare. Here I am, having spent a lot of money on a Mac Plus. (Mac's are *expensive* here in the UK - full shop price for a Mac Plus is around $2500-3000). The Mac SE was/is just out-of-reach. I'm looking forward to having the Plus for a number of years, using it for a variety of tasks at home. I keep having this horrible fear of an announcement by Apple: "We are committed to memory management on Macintoshes. The new System n.0 will run on a 68020-based machine only. In line with our past upgrade policies, we will sell 68020 boards to SE owners for $not-much. We consider the 68000-based Mac to be obselete. The minimal Macintosh is a 68020-based one. The Mac Plus is a bad dream. We will not support it. Future software will not run on it." Mummy, mummy, make the bad dream go away.... :-) [disclaimer: I'm not suggesting for a moment that anything like this is in the works. It's just a fear I have.] >Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...while the builders of the cages sleep with bullets, bars and stone, they do not see your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone.