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Article #38378Re: New Mac Rumours
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 21:37
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 21:37
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> I wonder how much of a deciding factor this might have been, in putting the
> new ROMs on removable cards..(ala MacIIx etc)? First thing I thought of
> when I saw them, was "well that ought to be easy to upgrade".
>
That's what I thought too, until I realized that the roms have always been
socketed. The only advantage of putting the ROMS on cards is that you can
easily make them bigger. 256K ->512K etc.
I seriously doubt that Apple will ever come out with anything called a MacIII
if only for historical reasons.
Pierce
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!cit-vax!wetter From: wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Mac Rumours Message-ID: <9771@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 25 Feb 89 21:37:14 GMT References: <736@microsoft.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 18