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Re: Connectix Ram Doubler and MCL?
- To: jwbaxter@pt.olympus.net (John W. Baxter), info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
- Subject: Re: Connectix Ram Doubler and MCL?
- From: reti@cambridge.apple.com (Kalman Reti)
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 14:04:41 -0500
At 10:44 AM 1/7/94 -0800, John W. Baxter wrote:
>>MCL Gurus-
>>
>>Anybody know if there are any potential conflicts between Connectix'
>>Ram Doubler and MCL.
>
>The most likely problem would be with the ephemeral garbage collection. As
>an "outsider", I see a good possibility that the egc code would disagree
>with RAM Doubler over the use of the PMMU. And it sounds like the sort of
>argument that everybody loses.
I don't know anything about RAM doubler, but MCL doesn't make any use of the PMMU
unless the ptable init is installed.
>
>Connectix knows a whole lot about Macintosh memory issues (sometimes, more
>than Apple)...although I have enough RAM that I'm not terribly interested,
>I would tend to trust RAM Doubler.
>
>--John
>
>--
>jwbaxter@pt.olympus.net (John W. Baxter) Port Ludlow, WA
>I don't have a cross platform...I have a contented Macintosh.
>finger me to prove I'm all wet (Port Ludlow rainfall numbers).