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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0
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Date: 15 May 89 17:43:58 GMT
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In article <7942@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> 
chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:
> 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.

System 7.0 will run in either 24 or 32-bit mode.  I believe that a reboot 
will be required to switch between the two.  32-bit clean applications 
will run in either operating mode, while non-32-but clean applications 
will only run in 24-bit mode.  (Apple has defined a bit in the SIZE 
resources that indicates if an application claims to be 32-bit clean.)

Also, when running in 24-bit mode and using virtual memory, the size of 
the virtual address space can be up to 8Mb plus 1 Mb for each free NuBus 
slot.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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