Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bruner From: bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: ROM Disk Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 17:47:10 GMT References: <10123@ur-cc.UUCP> <1990Oct30.231717.29002@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Oct31.235912.18133@news.iastate.edu> <1990Nov1.095055.1706@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: CSRD, University of Illinois Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: borton@garnet.berkeley.edu's message of Thu, 1 Nov 90 09:50:55 GMT Chris Borton writes about the hidden ROM disc in the Classic, and says > If this sticks it'll be a cool, undocumented, unsupported feature of the > Classic, very useful to 1M/1 floppy setups. That is, if that system works > well, which is obviously the question since Apple seems to have decided that > it's not supportable (can't blame them myself). I wonder if this might be the real reason for the ROM SIMM sockets in the newer machines. Perhaps Apple intends/intended to come out with ROM discs to plug into those sockets, thereby allowing the machines to run discless via AppleShare. It would still be possible, even if the ROM disc in the Classic turns out to be wasted space. -- John Bruner Center for Supercomputing R&D, University of Illinois bruner@csrd.uiuc.edu (217) 244-4476