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In article <1542@csuna.UUCP> dlt@csuna.UUCP (Dave Thompson) writes:
>On the front page of this week's MacWeek (10 January 1989) there is an
>article entitled:  "Virtual memory ends RAM jam."  Connectix Corporation
>has come out with a package containing a PMMU and an INIT for $695 that
>creates an 8mb swapfile on disk, far cheaper that an 8mb DRAM upgrade.
>The article states that there is "some" performance degradation on 1mb
>RAM machines but performs adequately on 2mb machines and with no noticeable
>degradation on 4mb machines.  Sounds great!!
>
>My question is:  are there any beta testers of this software out there on
>the net who would be willing to attest to the quality of this product?
>Comments?
>-- 
>Dave Thompson		     		uucp:   dlt@csuna.csun.edu

Sounds real great to me too.  I am expecting literature from them next
week. I'll tell you what little I learned from their sales rep on the
phone yesterday, though.

Price for init + 68851 MMU = $695
Price for init alone       = $295

The product is supposed to ship next week at macworld, there will be show
special prices of ~600 and ~250 respectively.

The init will supposedly work with any off the shelf 68851 so it would 
probably be worth shopping around. (This leads to the question of does anyone
know sources for the 68851?  I called all the places from the back of BYTE
yesterday, ie JDR, Jameco, Microprocessors Unlimited, and they all acted
like they had never heard of it.)

Also, a special version of the init designed to work with the 030 (in the IIX
and SE/30) will be forthcoming soon.

The rep was unable to answer questions like "What's the page size? What's the
page replacement algorithm?"

Any additional info would be greatly appreciated.

Josh
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