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["Matt white" <mattwhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thats it the SE/30. My mac history is a little rusty. At any rate i see
little value other than the "geek" factor in getting haiku to boot in some
form on a 68k. But in my own experience the later revisions of the 68k were
very capable little chips, not exactly desktop level performance but very
useful for different embedded applications. Ive got a few laying around.

On Nov 15, 2007 4:07 PM, Niklas Nisbeth <noisetonepause@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Nov 15, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Matt white wrote:
>
> > The first 68ks actuslly topped out at 16mb due toonly 24bit
> > adressing. But the later revisions solved this. If anyone has a Mac
> > Classic I beleive they can have 128mb of mem and use the 68040 or 050.
>
> Oh no. Apple never went beyond the '040, and the Classic in
> particular was a very crippled design (pretty much a rereleased
> original Mac, but with a 68000 and one megabyte of RAM), as were most
> of their 68k machines except for the IIs, the Quadras, some of the
> Centrises, and the SE/30. A lot of the Performas use the low range
> 68k chips with the MMU and FPU disabled (basically the 'full
> versions' that didn't pass all the tests and so were sold with some
> components disabled at a lower price). Motherboard designs further
> limited the amount of memory to 10MB in some cases, and you certainly
> won't get a Classic to recognise 128 MB RAM (you're thinking about
> the SE/30 there, which is quite a capable machine and supposedly runs
> BSD quite well).
>
> Niklas
>
>


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