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- From: los@coos.dartmouth.edu (Charles Dubuque)
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- Subject: Re: 16MB SIMMs in a Classic II?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.131739.13506@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:17:39 GMT
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- In article <craigw-250892083146@fnpm02.fnal.gov> craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug25.063640.17054@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- >stchang@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steven Kuk-Jin Chang) wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <BtItxo.EpL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jawalsh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (John A. Walsh) writes:
- >> >As suggested in the Subject line, I'd like to know if 16MB SIMMs can be
- >> >used in a Classic II. If they can't, why not?
- >> >
- >>
- >> No. The Classic II as is cant support 16 MB SIMMS. The Classic and the LC's
- >> both can only address 10 MB of system memory. That is the reason that when
- >> you put 2 4MB SIMMS into a LCII you only get 10 MB of useable RAM (Even though
- >> you have 4MB wired in, for at total of "12MB"). You MIGHT be able to put
- >> the 16MB SIMMS in, but you would only have 10 MB total for system usage.
- >
- >I've been wondering the same thing, and although it may be true, that
- >reasoning dones't seem valid. Because w/ virtual memory you are not limited
- >to 10MB.
- >Can anyone else confirm this or has tried it?
-
- The Classic II ROMs are crippled so that they can only access 10Megs of
- physical (true RAM) memory (8 Megs under 24 bit addressing, 10 under 32
- bit). You can access more using 32bit addressing and virtual memory,
- but that memory is all on hard disk and is really slow compared to real
- RAM. There is no way that the Classic II can ever use more than 10 Megs
- of real RAM, unless Apple offers a ROM upgrade (ps. Apple has never
- offered a ROM upgrade for any of its computers except for the 128K and
- 512K).
-
- Chuck
- los@coos.dartmouth.edu
-