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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <2892@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 90 20:03:59 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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In article <1990Oct17.225547.7386@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:
>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?  

	20/20 hindsight makes for wonderful discussions of what Apple should
	have done when they were perhaps not thinking about 32 bit clean and
	then as newer Mac's came out they realized the importance thereof.

	Apple also needs to control where its roms go. Allowing dealer
	upgrades of ROM's could be a real tricky problem. As old roms 
	would or should perhaps be destroyed to prevent technology theft
	and people selling them to emulator makers for profits undeserved.
	
	Its not so much the cost as it is other issues in doing such
	upgrades..
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3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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