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Article #37610More SE/30 Queries: RAM jumpers, SANE escapes, MacWorld article
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 07:39
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 07:39
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Just finished the MacWorld article on the SE/30, which answered quite a few
questions. However, one or two remain...
1) I've heard rumors that, instead of having to jumper or cut resistors to
indicate how much memory is in the SE/30 (like the Plus and the SE),
that there are movable jumpers, so you're not having to go in with wire
cutters and/or a soldering iron to change the memory configuration.
Someone want to throw cold water on that?
PS Since the 8 RAM SIMM banks need to be filled with groups of four,
any reason why a 5 Meg configuration (4 1Meg SIMMs, 4 245K SIMMs)
wouldn't be legit?
2) In an article discussing the Mac II's "aging", a new columnist for
MacWorld mentions that programs like Excel rarely use the floating point
co-processor that comes with the Mac II, because the SANE code doesn't
call the FP processor as often as it should. He points out that Radius
has an INIT called Radius SANE which patches the SANE code in the Apple
ROMs to use the FP processor more often. First, does this problem still
exist in the Mac SE/30's SANE code, and if so, will the Radius SANE INIT
work on the SE/30?
----
I must add that, outside of David Bunnell's confused ramblings, MACWORLD has
been getting nothing but better in my book. With columnists like Steve Levy
and Jerry Borrell as editor, it's nice to read a national Mac publication
that has some sensible (and sometimes even original, in the case of Levy) to
say about the Mac and its community.
MONDO VIDEO with Prof. Fred Hopkins:
"PHANTASM II (MCA). To make up for featuring
The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) for about ten
minutes, this languid sequel spotlights some
fairly graphic nudity. Problem is you're
never really sure if the androgynous actor
in question is a man or a woman, and that
takes a lot of the fun out of it."
---
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: More SE/30 Queries: RAM jumpers, SANE escapes, MacWorld article Keywords: SE/30 RAM floating point MacWorld Message-ID: <6913@fluke.COM> Date: 10 Feb 89 07:39:22 GMT Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 44