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From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ROM Disk (was Re: Resedit)
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.050513.6184@CAM.ORG>
Date: 22 Nov 90 05:05:13 GMT
References: <10123@ur-cc.UUCP> <1990Oct30.231717.29002@hoss.unl.edu>
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252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes:

>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).

>   ***
>  ***   mike gleason <252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu>
> ***   "It's Hammer time... NOT!" -- Anthrax
>***  .signature randomizer 1.0 * write for free c source

  Well, they HAVE done it.  My Classic here can do the Command-Option-X-O on
startup and boot from ROM.  Cool but useless.

  I also did this at work to connect to our AppleShare file server.  It
works!  It even stores the automount volume info in Parameter Ram
( or at least a portion of Ram that can survive a reboot).

  But there's a problem (unless AppleShare 3.0 will change things)... I have
had some bizarre crashes at startup with this (finder is damaged... yeah,
right, it overwrote the ROM?  Give me a break!) config.

  Here is the info as I read it on my screen right now:

Finder 6.1x    <---  Seems to be possibly RAM upgradable????
System 6.0.3

System memory usage = 166k

You can't start up under MultiFinder

You don't have access to printer drivers...

The only Font available in Monaco 9 point.

The Brightness CDEV is version 1.0d2 and has a Horizontal orientation!!!

Macsbug is in there (evidence that this thing is buggy!) in ROM...

AppleShare Prep file is there, but looks bogus (info stored elsewhere).

No printer drivers (major problem).

Only Control Panel and Chooser available.

Basically, a neat hack that doesn't do much (the ROM seems to be copied
into RAM anyway, as no memory is liberated by the ROM stuff...).

Boot Disk 365,486 bytes used, 357K on disk, for 9 files
Where: hiding inside this machine...

Created; Thu, Mar 22, 1990, 8:10pm
Modified: Thu, Nov 22 1990, 11:59pm.  <---  Current date

That's about it....

 
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