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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <1356@radius.com>
Date: 18 Oct 90 00:18:13 GMT
References: <3325@orbit.cts.com> <1990Oct16.120133.15666@lth.se> <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Oct17.225547.7386@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:

}In article <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) 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.
}>
}>(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?
}>
}>Yea, right!
}
}Get real!  ...
}
}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?  

[Geez, it's getting kinda warm in here with all these flames...  :-) ]

Well, actually, they _DID_ have the foresight to add the ROM SIMM socket,
didn't they?  Every machine since the IIx has that (alas, my poor Mac II
doesn't, but hey, they didn't think of it until the IIx).  The idea was
(from what I recall) that they didn't yet have 32-bit clean ROMs (nor did
they need them at the time) but they would some day, and that's why the
ROM SIMM socket is there.  I think before it becomes necessary to have
real 32-bit clean ROMs, you'll see a ROM SIMM available for those who
"really need it"...  (at least this is my guess - it certainly isn't based
on any secret information that anyone has shared with me).
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