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Article #43257Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they???
From: Leonard Rosenthol
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 16:14
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 16:14
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In article <11315@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes: > > Over the years I've noticed that apple is moving more & more of the Mac's > OS from the ROM's to RAM installed routines. I don't know what the figures > are but you'd be hard pressed to find a manager that doesn't have patches > installed in RAM. And with system 7.0 coming out it might even be that there's > more OS in RAM than in the ROM's. I realize there are advantages to RAM vs. > ROM routines and this posting wasn't intended to start that sort of discussion For what it's worth - Apple commented during the developers conference that there would be NEW ROMS (upgrades) available with System 7.0 so that you would have MORE in ROM and LESS in RAM (so you can use your RAM for something useful like running applications :-) -- +--------------------------------------------------+ Leonard Rosenthol | GEnie : MACgician Lazerware, inc. | MacNet: MACgician UUCP: svc@well.UUCP | ALink : D0025
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!apple!well!svc From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they??? Summary: ROM upgrade forthcoming.. Message-ID: <11908@well.UUCP> Date: 30 May 89 16:14:01 GMT References: <11315@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Lines: 19