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From: sidlives@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (David Rho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The PMMU on the Mac II
Message-ID: <5766@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 89 18:14:50 GMT
References: <8903080956.AA22840@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: sidlives@mit-vax.UUCP (David Rho)
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge
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In article <8903080956.AA22840@Portia.stanford.edu> carter@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (Thomas J. Carter) writes:
>I recently got Virtual (which I love) and put in the 68851, but now
>I'm wondering what to do with the old chip.  Can it be sold and used
>elsewhere?  Thanks in advance.


The chip that you pulled out of your Mac II is essentially and for
all purposes useless.  It is just a brain dead version of the
68851 which (from what I heard) always sends back page faults at
every memory reference.  
	sidlives@mit-vax.lcs.mit.edu
	David Rho

Disclaimer: I cannot and will not take any responsibility
for anything in this article.  If anything is not correct,
sorry.