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From: pkahn@deimos.ads.com (Phil Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: When will MacOS get virtual memory?
Summary: But what is the answer?!!
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Date: 10 Oct 88 16:56:55 GMT
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Though I have greatly enjoyed the informative geneological and
functional tracings of the 680XX, I am still left with my original
question: When will Apple release MacOS with virtual memory?!!

I KNOW that Apple is working on this. Note that I work several miles
away from Apple and I know several current AC employees that
unfortunately do not know the precise answer but know that projects
are underway. In fact, two separate AC people I know told me that they
have heard that a VM MacOS has been built and is running! 

Now I understand that a company has to 'protect' its developer base
and secrecy builds a mystique that gets free PR, but geez, we
sometimes have a hell of a time convincing some people to buy Macs
when VM does not appear to have any real support within Apple (except
for the 'Oh, gee, then you should buy A/UX crowd (and build Rome from
scratch).' Sometimes it seems that the power in Apple is controlled by
evangelists and relatively lay users rather than computer scientists.
I mean, Multics had virtual memory in the 60s! Pretty basic stuff here.

Does anyone out there know?  Can't anything be said?  Isn't it about
TIME?!!! 

phil...