Re: 32-bit Mac II OS (was: SIMMS in Mac II)

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From: taylor
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1987 08:15

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In article <2364@husc6.UUCP> stew@endor.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) writes:
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>...NuBus boards are limited to 1Mbyte each, at present, due to the
>limited way in which the bus is mapped for compatibility with the 24
>bit Mac OS and fake MMU...

   Anyone have information about future plans to remove this OS restriction?
(We should like to use the toolbox while in 32-bit mode, without having to
SwapMMUMode repeatedly, because our memory-mapped Mac II to VMEbus interface
occupies up to 128 Mbytes in Superslot space).

Bruce Taylor
EP Division

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From: taylor@cernvax.UUCP (taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 32-bit Mac II OS (was: SIMMS in Mac II)
Message-ID: <495@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:15:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 04:15:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 20:51:29 EDT
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Organization: CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Keywords: 32-bit, Mac II, VMEbus
Summary: whether, when

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