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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacII Memory Limit
Message-ID: <5553@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 16:31:39 GMT
References: <77800001@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1276@key.COM> <5596@internal.Apple.COM>
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In article <5596@internal.Apple.COM> miker@Apple.COM (Michael P. Radovancevich) writes:
%In article <1276@key.COM% russ@xanadu.key.COM (Russell Donnan) writes:
%%
%%On the same note:  I read an article in this month's EDN (Electronic
%%Design News) that quoted an Apple employee as saying that one would
%%need a ROM upgrade for a Mac // to use system 7.0.  Is this true?
%
%No ROM upgrade will be needed to run System 7.0.

On the other hand, a ROM upgrade would be nice if it permitted 1 Meg
Macs to run System 7.0. This would mean that Apple could drop the
parallel support of System 6.x those those machines. It would allow
Apple to sell new 1 Meg machines with System 7.0 in the box.

It is conceivable that System 8.0 would require new ROMS on all machines
(that System 8.0 will support). If so, I can appreciate why Apple
would not want to make ROMs available for System 7 only to have to
do it all over again for System 8.

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