[rescue] FTGH: Macintosh LC475

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021, Liam Proven wrote:

>> It's pretty annoying that way, and seems like the silliest sort of
>> oversight, given that 32-bit-clean Macs were the obvious way forward
>> when the card came out.
>
> I guess so, but to be fair, the IIe option board did come out 3Y
> before the LC475 and 7Y before MacOS 7.6...

But well after the first 32-bit-clean systems shipped.  I'd assume that
Apple's advice to developers at the time was to assume that everything
needs to be 32-bit clean.

> So, all in all, I reckon Apple handled the 24-bit to 32-bit addressing
> move more gracefully than the RISC OS world did. :-)

Nearly as well as IBM, in fact.

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Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA