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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
Keywords: obsolescence
Message-ID: <9716@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 20 Nov 90 18:24:54 GMT
References: <1990Nov11.175402.4291@rice.edu> <1990Nov12.122654.9692@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1990Nov17.230151.9843@rice.edu>
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In article <1990Nov17.230151.9843@rice.edu> jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
>It is my understanding that
>32 bit clean ROMs (aka IIci, IIfx or IIsi) are required to get more than 
>8 meg real or 14 meg virtual memory. 

  Very true.

>When if ever Apple will do a ROM upgrade
>for the II, IIx, IIcx and SE/30 is another question. My guess is they won't

  Recently, someone from Apple started collecting comments on the Net from
people who wanted such an upgrade.  Shortly afterward, he posted that the
person at Apple who would be in charge of such a thing responded "Hmm.  We
never guessed that anyone would want such an upgrade."

  So there are now people looking into it.  Never fear!  If enough people
say they want a product it's likely to appear, although it may take a while.

-- Mark Wilkins
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