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Article #43205Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they???
From: Phil Hunt
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 13:37
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 13:37
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In article <1111@draken.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes...
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}The figures for ROM/RAM (on the Mac IIx I use at school):
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}ROM 256Kb
}RAM 570Kb
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}which, with a bit reduction for fonts and DAs and such in memory (all
}of them aren't) gives the ratio ROM:RAM 1:2. This gets worse when you
}consider that much of the RAM OS REPLACES the Rom OS... But nowadays,
}the ROM OS is on RAM SIMMS, capable of storing up to 16Mb ROM (this
}comes from a TechNote) so there should be no big deal updating the
}ROMs, now, sould it, Apple ? :-)
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}--
}h+@nada.kth.se <>,, Picture this recording studio somewhere far far away
}Jon W{tte (:))))=- Brrrrreeeee, you bugger! (Piano in)
}Oh NO! A bug! <>'' Say kids, what time is it ? It's time for a house.
}Dizco me to XtaC! OOOOH LAAAH LAAAAA ! (c) HitHouse -- No More --
At the Apple Developers Conf in San JOse 2 weeks ago, Apple said they WOULD be
replacing the ROMS 'on future machines that have ROM SIMMS' to put
more/corrected system code in ROM, freeing RAM.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shlump.dec.com!vaxphw.dec.com From: phil@vaxphw.dec.com (Phil Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they??? Message-ID: <2601@shlump.dec.com> Date: 30 May 89 13:37:30 GMT Sender: news@shlump.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 31