Re: What's the ROM in the Portable?

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From: Paul Campbell
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 16:13

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In article <17766@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) writes:
>I just talked to a guy from Apple's New Product Support, and
>he said that the Portable has 512K ROMs, including (for some 
>reason or another) the code for 32-bit QuickDraw. Don't ask
>ME why, I'm just reporting the facts as I hear them.

I doubt it has color QD in it .... it's full of BEXTU's and other
instructions that 68000 and 68010 chips don't support

	Paul

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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
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Subject: Re: What's the ROM in the Portable?
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Date: 28 Sep 89 16:13:08 GMT
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