Re: boot from CD-ROM?

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From: Marc Albert Ullman
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:37

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In article <1992Aug20.161155.6930@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
>If your ROM version is 3.0 or higher (generally Turbo or later hardware),  
>you can boot directly from CD-ROM. If your ROM version is earlier than  
>3.0, you can boot indirectly from CD-ROM by means of a "kick-start"  
>floppy.

Thus I repeat my question:  Will NeXT make revised boot ROMs available to
people with earlier (pre ROM ver 3.0) boot ROMs?

--Marc

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