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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: <2895@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 20:01:58 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> <2505@ux.acs.umn.edu>
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In article <2505@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:
>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.
>
>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.
>
	If I recall the ROM simm was to allow for permanently installed
	software, not necessarily to replace outdated Apple Firmware.

	Your suggestion of better dealer control of rom distribution
	has merit, though it could really be dependant on whether the
	structure to control it could be efficiently done.

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