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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92241.130725ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:07:25 GMT
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- In article <ewright.714943016@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
- Wright) says:
- >
- >In <92240.131648ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
- >
- >>But gigabytes of RAM ??? Let me quote from my IIsi manual:
- >>"Speicher: 3MB RAM, erweiterbar auf 17MB" which means the maximum is 0.017GB.
- >>That sure _is_ gigabytes but not very many of them :-)
- >
- >See, that's what you get for reading documentation! The IIsi has
- >1M of RAM soldered to the motherboard and 4 SIMM slots. That allows
- >it to have 5M of RAM using 1M SIMMs or 17M of RAM using 4M SIMMs.
- >But using 16M SIMMs, it can have 65M of RAM. If that is not enough,
- >you can add additional RAM on a nubus card, and *all* of that memory
- >is directly addressable -- no expanded/extended/upper memory nonsense.
- >The operating system's memory limit is something like 4 gigabytes --
- >not a number I keep in my head, since I am unlikely to be able to
- >afford that much memory anytime soon. I have 17M of physical RAM
- >in my IIsi, and usually run with 34M of virtual memory. 17M is not
- >the memory limit. (And even if it was, that would still sound good
- >compared to the PC's 640K barrier.)
-
- Thats what I get reading A P P L E documentaion. I think they should know
- what their machine can do and what it can`t do. But perhaps it`s simply british
- understatement.
-
- BTW: 17M sounds good. At least 1M better than my 16M limit on my fairly old 386
- But then, when you buy a 386 or 486 today they usually have a limit of 32M or
- 64M. Don`t talk about 640K barrier. It no longer exists. I try to compare to
- System 7 even if I can`t run it on my Mac due to incompatibilites with the
- other software I bought together with the machine. I don`t compare to System 4
- or 5. So if you say something can`t be done with a PC (and todays PC are 386 or
- 486 computers) you have to take into account that DOS is not the only OS for
- PCs. If DOS doesn`t work for you, don`t bother the machine on my list had OS/2.
- YOU DON`T HAVE TO PAY EXTRA FOR IT. IT WAS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE I TOLD YOU.
-
- Michael Bode.
-