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From: dwb@sticks.apple.com (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How do I find the ROM version?
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Date: 23 Sep 89 02:47:39 GMT
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In article <10513@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov> dlv059@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Votaw) writes:
>Does anybody know what is the secret trick for finding out what version
>of the ROM you are running?  Someone told me that there's an instruction
>that can be typed at the interrupt prompt to find out, but he didn't know
>what it was.
	dm 40800008
or
	dm 800008
>
>We have MacEnvy, which is supposed to tell us this information, but the
>version we have (1.0d8) gives the same ROM data for an old Mac II (1987) 
>and a IIx. Is there a newer version?
	Perhaps that's because the II, the IIx, the IIcx and the SE 30
all use the same version of the rom, 0x178.  The "version" of the ROM
is revved much less frequently than one might assume.  If you need to
know what machine you're running on see the SysEnvirons call.


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