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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is the Mac 512 still a semi-viable system?
Message-ID: <9283@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 14 Dec 89 05:28:15 GMT
References: <272@spot.wbst128.xerox.com> <5690@internal.Apple.COM> <2779@ethz.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <2779@ethz.UUCP> marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti) writes:
>In article <5690@internal.Apple.COM>, alan@goofy.Apple.COM (Alan Mimms) writes:
>> [ ... ]  System 7.0 WILL RUN JUST FINE on Macintoshes with >= 2MB of
>> memory -- even the "lowly" MacPlus.
>
>I never doubted that.  I assume it even works well on Macintoshes
>with >= 8MByte of main memory ;-)  The problem is that last time
>I checked, my MacPlus had only 1MByte of main memory.

That's your problem.  SIMMs are cheap; go out and buy a couple, and
System 7.0 will run just fine on your Plus.  Don't blame Apple just
because you haven't done a cheap upgrade.

>Even if you tell me that System 7.0 will run in 1MByte,

It won't.  But it is the work of a few minutes and a few marks to give
your Plus 2.5 megabytes.  A few marks more and you can have 4 megabytes.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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