Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!web7c.berkeley.edu!c60a-6dd From: c60a-6dd@web7c.berkeley.edu (Rob Pfile) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Puzzled with 6.0 Summary: Somewhat miffed here. Keywords: 6.0 Mac 512KE Message-ID: <12076@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 88 21:51:56 GMT References: <12045@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <9266@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 42 In article <9266@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes: >In article <12045@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-6dd@web7c.berkeley.edu (Rob Pfile) writes: > >>A question: >>If System release 6.0 is not supposed to work properly on a Mac 512KE, >>then why have I been up and running for a week? > >>I am running a 512KE manufactured in mid 1986, with a Dove 1MB upgrade > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>and an Apple HD20SC. > > >The Dove 1MB is why. The only real difference (besides the layout of the >mother board) between the 512ke and the plus is the RAM. a 512 has 512K, >and the plus has 1024K. > >Andy J. Williams '90 |Ack Systems: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu| _ /| Thanks for telling me what I already know full well about Macintoshes. Now, what I was referring to was a topic that we had been discussing concerning PARAMETER RAM in the 512KE, and the Plus. According to others, the Plus has some extra parameter ram which some have said is used by the sound manager in 6.0 to store the user's beep choice. Since the 512KE supposedly does not have this extra RAM, 6.0 is not supposed to work properly, hence the existence of the XPRAM init. Unless the Dove board has this extra ram on board, (and no, I dont mean the other 512K, thanks) then I dont see why this is working right. Am I correct in assuming that Dove went ahead and somehow extended the PRAM? Rob ________________________________________________________________________________ Rob Pfile //|@ @|\\ Domain: c60a-6dd@web.berkeley.edu JAEG- \ \ ) / / UUCP: {ucbvax | lilac}!web.berkeley.edu!c60a-6dd just another | |0| | Internet: c60a-6dd%web.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu eecs geek! \_/ "You never know, you know?"