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From: rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <10851@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 18:00:44 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.120133.15666@lth.se> <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Oct18.175118.5227@cs.utk.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1990Oct18.175118.5227@cs.utk.edu> wnn@ornl.gov (Wolfgang N. Naegeli) writes:
>In article <10744@goofy.Apple.COM> rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) writes:
>> 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?
>

OK, OK!!!!!!!! I guess I was a bit botherd when I wrote that!!!!!!

I got the message people, it was a bad analogy at best. I guess I hear
that same scream so many times during the day I just got fed up with it.

Thanks to thoes of you who wrote me in an reasonable manner to complain that
I was way off base. I stand corrected. But please recall that I did say that
I agreed that ROM upgrades should be available as well. It was the
crying that I didn't like. As for crying, SMU, you still there. You did the
best crying if all!!!!!!!

Again, as some people seem to have missed (hello, SMU, can you hear me, is this
thing on?????), I do not speak for Apple. I wrote my own opinions. I said
what I felt, not what Apple asks me to say. They do NOT tell me what to say
or think. If you do not understand this, I'm sorry for you. Several of you
said that Apple must be this and that because of what I wrote.  I'd like
to think I have that much influence on Apple, but I only work here!!!!!

But how to solve the problem. Since I cannot release the ROM's obviously,
and since you all don't set Apple's policy, you are stuck right now!
But what I will do is this: Since I DO work for Apple, perhaps I can get
the ball rolling from inside. But this is what it will take:

I have NOT saved all the posting as to why there should be a ROM upgrade
made available to the general public. Apple actually did this once from the
64k ROMS to the 128K ROMS and created some additional problems (ask any
Atari ST user who had a "Magic Sac" cartridge and a set of 64k ROMS!!!!!!)
And I do not plan to sift through 2000 articles to find them. BUT, I will
take the swamp of mail if you are all willing to send it! I need you to explain
in a mail message why you need the ROM upgrade and why the System upgrades
on the new system  disks do not give you what you need. Be  as brief 
as possible please. Tell your friends to mail message too. I'll collect
them and present them to the "powers that be" and suggest that a ROM upgrade
possibly be made available. 

I cannot say that anything will ever becomne of it, but I will give it a shot.
Interested? Its the best I can offer from inside Apple. And again, I do this
as myself, NOT as an Apple employee. My opinions and my actions are mine
and I do not speak for Apple. (I repeat this again for SMU, because one 
of their staff missed all the disclaimers last time). 



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