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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: What Would I Do With 20 Megs of RAM in a SE/30?
Message-ID: <9368@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 20 Dec 89 21:40:30 GMT
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In article <18355@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP
(Josh Hodas) writes:
>Sorry Tim, I think you misunderstand a basic limitation of pre-7.0 mac OS.
>They recognize only up to 8 megs of RAM. Thus the only current use for
>such extra RAM is for RAM-disk or under A/UX. 

Even on newer ROM machines like the IIci and the SE/30?  I understood
those ROMs to be 32-bit clean, and I believe that System 6.0.x itself
is 32-bit clean.  You may be right, though; the sources I've seen have
not been clear on this point.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and
 danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."
    -- Aleister Crowley, THE BOOK OF LIES