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From: francis@magrathea.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: ROM Disk (was Re: Resedit)
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Date: 25 Nov 90 21:17:47 GMT
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Does anybody know *why* Apple decided to copy the ROM disk into
RAM? Surely most of it doesn't need to be written!

(And it could be set up to use RAM only when it's been changed.)


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