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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Personal Nightmare (Re: When will MacOS get virtual memory?)
Message-ID: <25401@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 10 Oct 88 16:53:00 GMT
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Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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> though-we-know-even-less-than-you-do stories.  But I distinctly
> remember that after some time (maybe a year) they were planning on
> completely moving over to a 32 bit architecture with real memory
> management, and everyone with a 68000 would get frozen into some old
> system like the folks without the Plus ROMs.  Pretty scary.  

Hmm, I distinctly remember that Apple offered an upgrade path to
owners of old 64K ROM Macs.  It may not have been an affordable
choice for >>everyone<< (e.g., university departments with 10s to 100s
of old Macs), but at least the option existed.

I don't think it entirely unrealistic to expect that Apple will offer
an upgrade path to owners of 68000 Macs if they would otherwise get
frozen into "some old system".  What they probably won't do is unbundle
ROM changes from CPU/PMMU upgrades so that you can buy a (cheaper) non-Apple
version of the latter.

Mike Khaw
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