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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Low-Cost Macintosh
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Date: 5 Feb 90 19:15:35 GMT
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In article <43100015@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, andrews@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
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> A low-cost mac should have two memory SIMM sockets to conserve
> space and reduce cost.  The machine should ship with two 1-meg
> SIMMs, resulting in 2 megabytes of memory, plenty for most users.  

Make that 4 sockets, shipping with one 1Mb SIMM in place.  Why four?
This gives the owner the option of upgrading to be able to run System
8.0, which should show up in four years or so. (Half :-) )

The extra two sockets shouldn't take up all that much more real estate,
and the customers should be happy a bit longer.

> The SIMMs should be upgradeable to 4-meg SIMMs, if
> a user wants an 8-meg machine. 

Having four sockets will let them run up to 16Mb, which ought to be
enough to some useful set of monochrome applications around 1997 or
so.

I'm probably being optimistic about limits to the increase in the size
of operating system and applications.
 
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