[Coco] Sloppy decoding

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:37:24PM -0700, tim lindner wrote:

> MacFixIt.com: Why MacBook Pros Are Limited to 3 GB RAM

> 

> > The net result is that at least 3 GB of RAM should be

> > fully accessible, while when 4 GB of RAM installed,

> > ~700 MB of of the RAM is overlapping critical system

> > functions, making it non-addressable by the system.

> 

> "Critical system functions" also know as hardware I/O.

> 

> Gee, I though we had it bad in the CoCo when Tandy used such sloppy

> decoding for the PIAs.

> 

> :)


Sounds like Apple needs to discover PAE...short term fix: use
Linux. :-)

John
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