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From: harrye@pnet02.cts.com (Harry Evangelou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
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Date: 14 May 89 17:40:14 GMT
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In article <27045@pnet02.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
writes:
>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.
>  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.

David made a mistake. The Amiga supports 4GIGs of addressing (32bits), and
has been supporting it since its birth. Unlike the Amiga however, the Mac
no matter what Apple wants you to think, is a 24bit machine. I am still
laughing at the System 6.0 software and how many companies had to tell their
customers not to use it due to its bugs and incompatibilities. And 6.0 didn't
even have any of the big software coding features that Apple is proposing now.
Look what Apple did to its 030 machines. Throttle down to 24bits.

On the other hand; this is from the new release of AutoCAD for the MAC.
Autodesk says that AutoCad for the Mac, requires 4MEGS and they recommend
8Megabytes. And that's just ONE!! application. Have you ever wondered why
so many people do NOT use Multi-finder (and by the way Multi-finder is
not multi-tasking). Cause of its memory requirements. Have you seen how
many programs broke with the release of 6.0. I predict even a worst case
scenario with 7.0 (the bug free one, probably 3 years from now).

When your Mac blinders come off, maybe then you'll see what listening to
the users rather than dictating to the users really means.

I'll give one thing to Apple however. They do have great PR and marketing
people to launch their misinformation and "we invented it when the rest of
the world already had it" campaign. But as you can see from the DRAM mistake
and the increase and then decrease prices, even they can make mistakes.
 
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A used to be Mac-now-Amiga user.


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