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From: dnelson@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Dru Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: re:MacII&OS9
Message-ID: <758@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 88 16:26:18 GMT
References: <8810140355.AA13711@decwrl.dec.com>
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in article <8810140355.AA13711@decwrl.dec.com>, burke_vern@dneast.dec.com (Mah biscuits 're burnin'!-Yosemite Sam,_Roger Rabbit_) says:
> 
> 	os9 was developed strictly to run on systems based on
> 	the best of my knowledge,the isn't anything else that
> 	it has been adapted to run on(esp. a MacII!)
> 
> 						vern

A Macintosh II uses a 68020.  It could esily run this operating
system.  The only problem it would have would be with the disk drives.
The micorprocessor has to control them directly through the IWM.  That
would be the only problem.


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