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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.225547.7386@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 Oct 90 22:55:47 GMT
References: <3325@orbit.cts.com> <1990Oct16.120133.15666@lth.se> <10744@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) writes:
>In article <1990Oct16.120133.15666@lth.se> sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m) writes:
>>In article <3325@orbit.cts.com> pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby) writes:
>>   Now that we have the new Macs here touting 32 bit addressing (in the future
>>   with our new 32 bit clean ROMs), I begin to wonder if there will
>>   finally be an upgrade for this ROM SIMM thingie that sits in my SE/30.
>>
>>I think it's time for Apple to offer us that upgrade or
>>else a lot of people including me will feel cheated. 8 megs
>>isn't always enough.
>
>(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!

Get real!  That would be more equivelent to 'Apple!  Give me a 68040 upgrade
to my Mac SE!!'  An ABS braking system would require major changes to the car.
A simple ROM upgrade only requires a few chips <or a SIMM> and 5 minutes
of someone's time.  Total cost to Apple: ~$25.  
If Apple doesn't do the upgrade, for atleast a REASONABLE cost <$50?> you
are going to have a LOT of very unhappy Macintosh users who can't do some
major things just because the code in their ROMs is screwed up.
Besides, shouldn't Apple of had the the foresight to make the ROMs 32bit clean
in the first place?