nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (05/09/91)
In article <12052@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes: > I apologize for screwing up > rec.music.synth, but a few people here may be following this thread. I > promise that my followup line is properly edited. Oh well, let me try and make relevant comments... > Well, there's this and there's that. Apple has indicated that in order to > be ranked as system 7 "compatible" (which is a classification of software > used by their HyperCard compatibility checker stack) you must be 32-bit > clean. However, their system software offers two modes, one of which is a > 24-bit compatibility mode which allows you to run software which is not > 32-bit clean. Bear in mind that half of the Macintosh models don't have 32-bit clean ROM's, so those of us with SE/30's are stuck with 24-bit addressing anyway. This just cuts down the available address space. System 7.0 will still offer all its functionality. Now, my question: is MIDI Manager 2.0 working under System 7.0 VM yet? It wasn't last time I asked. If anybody's going to be at this meeting, *please* find out and extract documentation about writing MIDI Manager applications which are VM-friendly. Thank you. > -- Mark Wilkins Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick Disclaimer: Oh no, what's he done now? What's he been saying? Come along Nicholas, this way, back to your nice room, put that keyboard down, ...