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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0
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Date: 18 May 89 14:51:56 GMT
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In article <30672@sri-unix.SRI.COM> stores@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) writes:
>WOW! 8megs of real ram must be nice. I am testing the virtual init from
>connectix and have 8 megs of VMem. This raises two questions. 
>1) what is the virtual memory limit of 7.0, is it 8megs also
>   or is it limited to disk space.

4 Gig (in other words, yes, limited by disk space)

>
>2) What's going to happen to connectix? Did Apple just obsolete them?

Sure seems that way, but, it's not like we didn't know (or beg for)
Apple would implement virtual memory.  I'm still waiting for word on
the lawsuit.  Connectix said they have a patent on the only method of
virtual memory for the Mac.  "As far as I know, there's only one way
to do virtual memory on the Mac, and I've filed a patent application
on it."  -- Jonathan Garber, president, Connectix (MacWeek, 1/31/89)
Did anyone else get the feeling that Connectix was just drilling Darin
Adler at the Developers' Conference during the Q&A at the OS session.


Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.