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Re: How do you determine which cpu upgrades are "Sys 7 compatible"

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From: Jeff White
Date: Tue, 29 May 1990 21:49
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In article <2574@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>In article <25303@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeff White) writes:
>>cards available.  On the one hand, they would certainly anger a lot of people
>>who want to migrate to System 7.0 and not make a huge investment for it. On the
>>other hand, Apple is in the business of selling hardware, and all those (angry)
>>people who own Pluses and SE'will be forced into buying new 030/7.0 capable
>>machines.
>>
>	Every Mac Plus, Every Mac SE with adequate RAM installed is
>	"already" System 7 capable..the "only" feature of System 7
>	that I am aware of that Mac Plus and Mac SE owners will not
>	be able to take advantage of is Virtual Memory. Apple is not
>	trying to isolate people or force them into buying new hardware
>	to be System 7 compatable, they already are if they take the
>	time to add sufficient ram to run it.
>

  Sorry about that, it looks like I may have deleted too much of the original
article.  What I was referring to was the use of 030 accelerator cards on 
Pluses and SE's to give them the virtual memory capability that true Apple
030 computers will have.  

						Jeff

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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff White)
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Subject: Re: How do you determine which cpu upgrades are "Sys 7 compatible"
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Date: 29 May 90 21:49:20 GMT
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