Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ctrsol!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SMOKE.BRL.MIL!info-apple-request From: info-apple-request@SMOKE.BRL.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8908211755.aa12490@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Aug 89 23:33:04 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 Date: 21 AUG 89 23:30- From: Achim Patzner To: INFO-APPLE @ BRL.MIL Subject: New GS/ROM upgrade Date: 21-AUG-1989 23:08:46.28 From: Achim Patzner To: 0::"info-apple@brl.mil" Subj: New GS/ROM upgrade I'm getting a bit tired of all those messages like "... but we want these ROMs in our machines". Not regarding the argument that you won't get two chips into one socket (it is possible... a friend of mine practices the "art" of multiplying ROM-space since he got his first Commodore 2001: Take the two ROMs, use your soldering iron to connect one to the other except the chip select line and glue some TTL doing the chip select on top of them. But it will probably void the warranty 8-).) Back to reality. What do you need the additional ROM for? Everything inside it can be loaded into RAM when you need it WITHOUT you noticing it. And looking at the new System Disk, you'll find a file 'TS3'; that means that they have already found some bugs in that code, needing RAM-patches 8-). The only thing I'll be really jealous of is the new sound circuitry; I hate the sounds my Apple produces while accessing a disk drive. Don't worry that the programmers won't write code that doesn't support older gses... better worry that they won't produce anything at all as the only thing you can write acceptable code with is the Merlin assembler. Developers tend to like nice C compilers... Achim