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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <2505@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 15:17:38 GMT
References: <3325@orbit.cts.com> <1990Oct16.120133.15666@lth.se> <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Oct17.225547.7386@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <2892@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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In article <2892@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>	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.

But, Norm, wasn't this the whole point behind installing the ROM as a SIMM?
Future expansion, changes in ROM contents, etc. can be accomplished without
a lot of trouble, and without having thought of the future expansion options
when the system was built.

>	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.

So how about draconian measures against ROM theft?  Perhaps continued shipment
of Apple hardware could be dependent on return of appropriate numbers of old
ROMs.  Such a scheme would certainly make me, were I a dealer, think twice 
about selling off those replaced ROMs.


chaz


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