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- From: koichi@unixg.ubc.ca (Koichi J Kishimoto)
- Subject: New 586 making older machines obsolete?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.160147.25780@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:01:47 GMT
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- RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler) writes:
- >chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:
- >>Why not just pick up a broken PLUS/512 system with ROMS that are ok.
-
- >Because those 128k roms (old version of the operating system) and wont run
- >anything newer than about system 3.
-
- >The 256k roms in Mac+s will run up to system 6, for system 7 you have to
- >have a Mac II or an upgraded (new motherboard) of the older Macs
-
- Not true. I have a Mac+ running System 7. The only requirement is the
- installation of at least 2Mb of memory.
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- However, for virtual memory, you need a 68030 based Mac.
-
- John Kishimoto
- koichi@unixg.ubc.ca
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