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From: FTWILSON@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Frederick Todd Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0
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Date: 15 May 89 08:12:46 GMT
References: <3234@tank.uchicago.edu>
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In article <3234@tank.uchicago.edu>, ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

>In article <SARREL.89May14224531@galley.cis.ohio-state.edu>, sarrel@galley.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes...
>[smithw@yvax.byu.edu talks about getting VM on his 8 MB IIx]
>
>>[SARREL@GALLEY.CIS asserts that 7.0 will not allow memory addressing ab
 meg]
>Hm...in the 7.0 Release, it said:
>
>"32-Bit Addressing allows Macintosh computers to extend their
>memory capacities beyond 8 megabytes to 128 MB of physical RAM and
>up to 4 Gigabytes of virtual address space."

While this is by no means a researched and official response, I must agree:
all info that I have read on 7.0 indicates that 32-bit addressing will allow
Macs ('020 and '030, I believe) to extend their memory access well beyond
the current limit of 8 meg.

F. Todd Wilson
Apple Student Rep, Princeton University
AppleLink: ST0161
"My opinions are my own. Who else would want 'em anyway?!"
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