[Coco] Sloppy decoding

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Fri Oct 27 16:53:56 EDT 2006


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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