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Article #12353Re: How do you determine which cpu upgrades are "Sys 7 compatible"
From: Jeff White
Date: Tue, 29 May 1990 21:49
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!jeff From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: How do you determine which cpu upgrades are "Sys 7 compatible" Message-ID: <25354@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 29 May 90 21:49:20 GMT References: <628@seila.UUCP> <25303@netnews.upenn.edu> <2574@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeff White) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 24