Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Thomas Aaron Insel
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 02:46

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vito@netaxs.com (Vito) writes:

> Mac OS has NEVER been 32 bit, 

Justify this, please.  It is true that the operating system was once
only 24-bit, but that was back when nobody had enough memory for it to
make a practical difference.  I've been writing 32-bit Mac programs
for many years.
-- 
Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
  "They [La Prensa] accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.  This 
   was a lie and we could not let them publish it." -- Nelba Blandon, 
   Interior Ministry Director of Censorship, qtd. in The New York Times, 1984

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From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 25 Aug 95 02:46:26 GMT
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