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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A -- memory protection (none)
Message-ID: <364@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 17:11:20 GMT
References: <1838@internal.Apple.COM> <7320@hoptoad.uucp> <1906@internal.Apple.COM> <7350@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <7350@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>The so-called large address space of 14 megabytes imposed by the
>unclean ROM, you mean?  So processes can't even grow, and you can have
>a grand total of seven processes each sitting in its own dinky
>two-megabyte address space?  Sheesh.  This is sounding sillier and

I think that people are forgetting the 7.0 runs in 2 modes 24-bit
and 32-bit the above restrictions only apply to 24-bit mode.

Why wont everyone run 32-bit? Because initially many applications wont
be 32-bit clean. You can bet that as soon as 7.0 comes out everyone will be
screaming at their software suppliers that they can't run large VM
because of their particular application. By the time 32-bit becomes standard
no one will have any excuses ....

	Paul

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