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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <6843@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 22:00:08 GMT
References: <11290@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <11290@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) says:

> In article <6834@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>While no one's actually written a virtual driver for the Amiga yet, we do have
>>systems with MMUs out, and the OS supports 4 meg addressing, TODAY.

>   Who doesn't besides MS-Dos.  I've had 4 megs on my system since early 87,
> and with a Mac II, Mac IIx, Mac IIcx, or SE/30 you can have up to 8 megs of
> RAM.

Whoops, my mistake.  I meant to say "the OS supports 4 GIG addressing, TODAY".
As in, full 32 bit addressing, not just the 24 bit addressing that the current
Mac system has now.  A 4 meg limit doesn't make any sense; I've had 7 megs on 
both my systems for a few years, and have set up systems here with over 20 megs
of RAM, though of course 68000 based Amigas are limited to about 9 megs just
due to the limits of the 68000 itself.  Sorry this sounded stupid; I really
did have a valid point in my brain, my fingers just had other ideas...

>   The rest of your article was very informative and helpful, thankyou for
> posting.  But an OS that supports 4 megs is no big deal, unless of course
> you're micro-soft, then you think it's a big deal.

We're in perfect agreement on that one.

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