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From: czychi@ethz.UUCP (Gary Czychi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 4 Meg simms
Message-ID: <717@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 13:16:02 GMT
References: <EXc49-y00UgXM0wn93@andrew.cmu.edu> <19553@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <402a8cf0.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: czychi@bernina.UUCP (Gary Czychi)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <402a8cf0.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger) writes:

>In article <19553@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>>In article <EXc49-y00UgXM0wn93@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:

>>>I recently saw an ad in MacWeek for 4 meg simms. That's right, 4 megs.  Does anyone know anything about these (price, performance, reliability)?

... stuff deleted
>It should work great, the Mac II supports 256K, 1 Meg, 4 Meg, and 16 Meg SIMMS,
>for a total of up to 128M on board RAM.

Hi all,

the Mac II does recognize the 4meg SIMMs, *BUT* (!) the current Mac OS
*won't* !!

The only possibility to take advantage of more than eight Megabyte RAM is 
with *A/UX*!

I sincerely hope that Apple will fix this with system upgrade 7.*. What
about it, Apple?


Gary


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