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Article #20319Re: Mac II Production Stopped?
From: Richard Siegel
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 01:43
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 01:43
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In article <4091@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
>The problem is the Slot Manager won't recognize cards with > 1 Megabyte
>of memory (can you say "24-bit video card?") because it doesn't run
>in 32-bit mode. In the new ROM, the Slot Manager will run in 32
>bit mode, according to the letter.
>
>Today, only the lowest 1 Megabyte of address space of a NuBus card
>is visible to the Slot Manager. Since declaration ROM has to be at
>the top of the address space, if it uses > 1 Megabyte, the declaration
>ROM "disappears". Neat, huh?
>
That's *real* neat! What about those National Semiconductor
NuBus memory expansion cards that have 4, 8, or 16 MB of RAM on them?
Does this mean that they won't work either????!
NSI's advertising isn't real clear, but were those cards intended
to function under the normal Mac OS, or is UNIX required?
--Rich
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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!endor!singer From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II Production Stopped? Message-ID: <2999@husc6.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 21:43:45 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2999 Posted: Wed Oct 14 21:43:45 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 06:38:44 EDT References: <1149@runx.ips.oz> <4088@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <4091@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Richard Siegel) Organization: THINK Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA Lines: 28