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In article <1992Aug20.211805.10734@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.183737.23672@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
>marcu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marc Albert Ullman) writes:
>> Thus I repeat my question:  Will NeXT make revised boot ROMs available  
>to
>> people with earlier (pre ROM ver 3.0) boot ROMs?
>
>I am not aware of any plans to do so. This question should be directed to  
>Hardware Product Marketing at NeXT. Unless you don't have a floppy drive,  
>I can't see any circumstance in which it would be worthwhile to change the  
>ROM.

Supposedly newer versions of the boot rom have other enhancements like
selective support for parity-based memory.  Also, I was of the impression
that you can't boot from the floppy either but must use the floppy to
upgrade the hard disk so that it can then read the CD.  I agree that if
(per our previous discussion) one can produce a bootable OD, this would
serve as an acceptable alternative for those times when one needs to
boot without a hard disk (like when you're in the middle of upgrading it).

> I would rather insert a floppy once a year than change the ROM.

Since I've replaced the ROM (going from 0.8 to 1.0), RAM, the motherboard, 
and the internal disk, swapping out the ROM once more doesn't bother me too
much.

--Marc