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From: 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason)
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Subject: Re: ROM Disk (was Re: Resedit)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 23:17:17 GMT
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In article <10123@ur-cc.UUCP> esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eran) writes:
>In the same MacWeek I read that the new classic rom has some extra
>features like a rom disk.  Is it possible to upgrade an se/30
>to the new 512K rom?

Is there anyone out there besides me that thinks that this is just another
lie cooked up by MacTheKnife?  For one, how could they fit an entire, decent,
bootable system file in only 357k?  The picture also shows 9 alleged files,
I find it hard to believe that they could squeeze a System, Finder, and the
other system folder additions in that small of space.  Okay, I guess they could
be stored in a compressed format, but still.  Two, surely the new 512k ROMs
have something else besides the old 128k ROM in them.  512k - the 357k for the
purported ROM disk leaves only 155k.  A better idea would be for apple to supply
some sort of SIMM slot for a ROM disk.  Then, *when* they find bugs in the
System software, they could just supply a new ROM SIMM (for a hefty fee of
course).

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