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From: francis@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Any GOOD reasons to buy Classic vs.
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Date: 23 Oct 90 17:27:48 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.163107.9221@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@scotty (Scott Howard) writes:
>I don't really know what is in the 512K ROMS...

Well, according to Mac the Knife (MacWEEK's normally reasonably
accurate rumor column), Outbound has dug around in the Classic's ROM,
and has found a 358K "ROM Disk".  Speculation has it that the
existance of this ROM Disk is tied with the release of AppleShare 3.0
around Spring of 91, and that the ROM disk will allow Classics (and
anything else that has the ROM disk in it, MtK lumps LCs into this
category) boot directly from an AppleShare server (i.e., no need for a
floppy disk to boot).  I know *MY* department's been asking Apple for
this for years....
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R David Francis   francis@cis.ohio-state.edu