Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!chow From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System 7.0 Message-ID: <7942@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 15 May 89 11:09:06 GMT References: <599smithw@yvax.byu.edu> Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 20 In article sarrel@galley.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes: .In article <599smithw@yvax.byu.edu. smithw@yvax.byu.edu writes: . . .Sorry to burst your bubble, but the maximum amount of RAM (real + .virtual) is still 8Meg. Since the applications share a single address .space and the ROMs (in your machine, not Pluses) are addressed .starting at 8Meg (and going up), the only space for RAM is below 8Meg. Not true. The 8Mb RAM limit is only under a 24-bit addressing mode. Since system 7.0 will be running under 32-bit mode, you can have globs of memory. Christopher Chow /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35) | | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | | US Mail: 202C Grenadier Drive, Liverpool, NY 13090 | | Phone: Work: 1-315-456-3214, Home: 1-315-622-0362 | | Delphi: chow2 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/