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Article #20398Re: Mac II Production Stopped?
From: David W. Berry
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1987 02:50
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1987 02:50
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In article <2999@husc6.UUCP> singer@endor.UUCP (Richard Siegel) writes: >In article <4091@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes: > NSI's advertising isn't real clear, but were those cards intended >to function under the normal Mac OS, or is UNIX required? > > --Rich National's large memory boards will "work" regardless of the operating system. However, initially only A/UX will be able to take advantage of them. The toolbox memory manager won't know about them although I would assume that will be fixed "real soon now" You can certainaly expect (NOTE: SPECULATION ONLY!!!!!!!) to see a raft of programs to allow the memory to be used as ram disks, ram cache, special versions of Excel which can access it, etc. -- David W. Berry dwb@well.uucp dwb@Delphi dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell Disclaimer: Apple doesn't even know I have an opinion and certainly wouldn't want if they did.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!pyramid!voder!apple!dwb From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II Production Stopped? Message-ID: <6484@apple.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 22:50:43 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.6484 Posted: Thu Oct 15 22:50:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 16:42:25 EDT References: <1149@runx.ips.oz> <4088@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <4091@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <2999@husc6.UUCP> Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 21