. 
> Additionally, the Mac II had a maximum RAM of 128 MB.   The LC goes 
> up to 10 MB.    What's up with that?   It's not even a power of 2. 
> Apple must have done something seriously stupid in the ROM and/or the 
> memory map, because that's not the kind of number you're likely to 
> get from a hardware limitation.

The 10Mb RAM limit was deliberately programmed into the LC's ASICs.

Cheers,
Adam.


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