dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry) (12/11/86)
Actually, you can create arrays bigger than 32K, they just can't be in your global data. Due to the lack of memory mapping hardware on the mac, and the desire to make programs and data 100% relocatable, global data is accessed with a negative index off of a5. Since the 68000 can't handle anything other than 16 bit offsets real easily you can';t yet have a global data space larger than 32K. If someone where to write some really slick code you could still do it, it would be kinda troublesome and some of the data wouldn't be as readily accesible: move.l #offset,d0 move.l 0(a5,d0.l),d0 instead of: move.l #offset(a5),d0 Then again, apple probably limited the size of the global data area to a word thinking that nobody needs more global data than that and nobody would go to that much trouble in a compiler... If you need a large array, allocate it using NewPtr or NewHandle and go from there. -- David W. Berry dwb@well.uucp dwb@Delphi dwb@GEnie 293-0752@408.MaBell
rich@cfi.COM (rich) (02/07/89)
I have a Mac II that needs a color monitor. I have the Apple 8-bit video
card already. My questions:
How do I determine which 3rd party monitors will work with the Mac?
In particular, would a larger resolution display (say, 960 X 720) work with
the same card? (I would think not.)
If not, is the manufacturer usually the one who must supply the proper
video interface card, or are there standard ones you can mix and match with
monitors?
In general, are there any larger (than 640 X 480) color monitors available
for around $1k for the Mac?
I would love to hear (soon!) from anyone who can shed some light on this
subject.
Rich Baughman ima!cfisun!rich OR rich@cfi.com
The Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, MA 617-899-6500
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The Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, MA 617-899-6500punch@uranus.cis.ohio-state.edu (William F. Punch) (03/01/89)
I am interested in folk's experience with large B&W (19 inch or so) monitors. I recently read someone panning Raidus, saying their init did not work with a number of programs. Anyone else know of big monitors with problems (or, being more optimistic, monitors with which they are pleased)? I read the recent macworld on the Nutmeg and CornerStone monitors, but they didn't seem to try out lots of software. In the same vein, how about large COLOR monitors? I know Supermac makes them, but it appears that they go to a lot of expense for an extended pallette of colors. I would be happy with 256. Anyone have some good (or bad) experiences with COLOR monitors.. Please reply to me, if there is interest I will post the results. Thanks folks. -=- There is no such thing as a problem * >>>Bill Punch<<< without a gift for you in its hands. * punch@cis.ohio-state.edu You seek problems because you need * ...!att!osu-cis!punch their gifts. R. Bach * 2036 Neil Ave;OSU;Columbus, OH 43210
jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (06/26/89)
It looks like my publisher is going to listen to my pleas for a large hard drive and spring for a big one. (Interleaf and Virtual really eat up disk space....) Is anyone out there using 600 meg drives, such as the La Cie 610 or the CMS Ehancements 600? These drives seem almost unbelieveably cheap (~$3000). La Cie has a good reputation, but the drive is internally terminated, which would be a problem - I'd have to cut the terminators, since this drive must go in the middle of a SCSI chain. Are there any others that you would recommend? Although I'm not paying, $3400-3500 is about all I can spend (read that, all my publisher will give me). Thanks for the info. Jan Harrington Scholastech Telecommunications husc6!stech!jlh or allegra!stech!jlh ************************************************************************* Miscellaneous profundidity: "No matter where you go, there you are..." Buckaroo Banzai *************************************************************************
milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) (10/20/89)
Can anyone recommend a good manufacturer of LARGE hard disks for the Macintosh?
I'm looking for anything over 160MB in size, although 300-600mb drives are
my prime interest.
Any recommendations? The drives will probably be used largely for jobs like
mastering CD-ROM data.
Greg Corson
19141 Summers Drive
South Bend, IN 46637
(219) 277-5306
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