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Article #33074Re: ROMs on SIMMs
From: Jim Cathey
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1988 23:02
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1988 23:02
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In article <5268@juniper.uucp> chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley) writes: >>My personal paranoia suggests that the reason for the SIMM ROM's are that >>the IIx's roms are written in '020 code. Look for a new release optimized >>for the '030 and its data cache. > >It may be partially for that reason but I hear from the various rumor columns >that the new ROMs will be totally object-oriented. Sounds nice doesn't it? >Sounds kind of like a NeXt doesn't it? Oooohhhh! Now I can't wait for those new object-oriented keyswitches and object-oriented line cords to become available too! Incidentally, socketed ROMs existed in this world long before they were placed on a SIMM carrier. My Mac 128K has them. So why all the fuss? Aren't they socketed in the Mac II? +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC Systems Corp. ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!iscuva!jimc ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ Member: Buzzword Defamation League
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!iscuva!jimc From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ROMs on SIMMs Message-ID: <2066@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Date: 10 Oct 88 23:02:37 GMT References: <375@rondo.randvax.UUCP> <10330047@eecs.nwu.edu> <8224@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <5268@juniper.uucp> Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA Lines: 24