On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > Note that on the off chance you're using something that requires 24 bit > addressing, you'll have to switch it back and lose the extra RAM.
Yeah, some older programs would 'hide' information in the upper bits of the address, since the system didn't use those bits, and "Who would ever have more than 8MB RAM anyway?" Those programs fail badly on systems that *do* use those bits, of course. (Even Apple was slightly guilty of this, since some of their ROM code wasn't "32-bit clean". Fortunately, there's the "Mode32" system enabler to work around that.) As I recall, it was mostly some games that had that trouble... but wasn't some version of Word or another guilty, too? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
