Re: Re: System 7.0

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From: Amanda Walker
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 15:04

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In article <9210@polya.Stanford.EDU>,
shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
> The killer is tht the current ROM is not 32 bit clean.
> In particular, the current ROM doesn't like to have the MMU turned on
> in 32 bit mode, and the memory manager gets most unhappy.

Actually, an awful lot of the II & IIx ROMs actually are 32-bit clean--
witness the A/UX toolbox.  The biggest piece seems to be the memory
manager, as I remember, but most of that can be handled by making master
pointers 8 bytes (a second longword for the flags)...

--
Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.UUCP>
InterCon Systems Corporation

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Subject: Re: Re: System 7.0
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Date: 16 May 89 15:04:48 GMT
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