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From: rewing@APPLE.COM (Richard Ewing)
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Subject: Re: New GS ROMs
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Date: 19 Aug 89 17:16:48 GMT
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Actually, I believe that we did get a dedicated driver for the Imagewriter LQ,
both direct connect and Appletalk.  At least, I have one.  never used it
though.  The ROM upgrade will free up some RAM for those who get the
new machine, but its just about negated by the RAM difference between the
two machines.  Your machine with an Apple memory expansion card has 1.25
megs.  The new machine has only 1.125 megs.  Since the difference is 128K of RAM
and the ROM difference is also 128K, you can figure that it pretty much
evens out.  The only thing you don't have I think are sticky keys,
Appletalk in either slot 1 or 2 instead of 7, and a jumper that
prevents access to the text control panel (so that kids can't screw with
the machine in schools).  Other than that, just get System 5.0, and you
should be home free.

The Ethernet project is again on hold until DTS can get me Appletalk and SCSI
docs for System 5.0 (Matt, are you listening?), but you may find it
interesting that this came up as a desired feature in a recent meeting
of system engineers at Apple.  So when I get the programming docs, I'll
start immediately, first with drivers for the Kinetics EtherSC, and later
for Dove and Adaptec's hardware.  TCP is a little out of my league
right now, although with the proper docs (maybe from Kinetics), this
could be done over Localtalk now.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta