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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
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Date: 21 Nov 90 21:18:54 GMT
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References:<1990Nov17.230151.9843@rice.edu> <9716@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Nov20.193839.14695@rice.edu> <9728@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <2748@ux.acs.umn.edu>

In article <2748@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) 
writes:
> I have an SE/30, a mcahine whose ROMs are not, of course, 32-bit clean. 
I would
> like them to be so. Now, say a friend has a machine which features a 
32-bit 
> clean ROM SIMM -- say, a IIci.  He doesn't care if his machine is 32-bit 
clean,
> since he is not a particularly technically-oriented user -- he'll never 
want
> 500 Mb of VM, for example.
> 
> My question is this: Can these two ROM SIMMs be swapped in order to 
accomplish
> the 32-bit cleanness of the SE/30, or is the ROM SIMM pinout different 
for
> every machine, like the PDS pinout is?

I'm not the ultimate guru on this, but I strongly suspect the ROMs are not 
interchangable regardless of the pinouts. The ROMs will contain 
hardware-specific code that will differ for the SE/30 and the IIci.

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