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From: gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 19:55:49 GMT
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In article <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) writes:

[in reference to people requesting a 32-bit clean ROM upgrade for the SE/30]

>(These are my comments and I do not speak for Apple:)
>
>As I read these comments I often wonder if you people also complain to 
>BMW and Chevrolet and Ford (etc) about upgrades to your cars?
>
>"Gee,I have an 84 Vette that does not have ABS breaks. I wonder when Chevrolet
>will offer me an upgrade kit for my Vette!!!!!! Its not fair!!!!!!!!"
>
>Yea, right!

*FLAME ON*

	Nice attitude, jerk.  They're asking for a ROM upgrade to take
advantage of hardware that Apple said would do "this this and this."
They aren't asking for a 68040 upgrade.  They aren't asking to have
their SE/30 retrofitted for the new Apple Microphone.  They aren't
asking for IIfx-style DMA.  All they're asking for is 32-bit clean ROMs.

	It's a bloody ROM upgrade, something Apple used to offer
commonly with the pre-Plus Macs, and obviously intends to support with
all the new SIMM-slotted ROMs.

	I can see taking that attitude with the people who whine that
their Plus can't do 32-bit color, or that their Mac IIx doesn't have
built-in video or DMA, but we're talking about a ROM upgrade.

	Get real.

*Flame Off*

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