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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Classic question
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Date: 2 Dec 90 09:38:16 GMT
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v132gcnx@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (John A Feinberg) writes:

>Awhile back, someone said that you could boot off of an internal ROM 'disk' on
>the Mac Classic by holding cmd-opt-x-o (and waiting awhile) while the machine
>was starting up.  Is this true??  Can you really start up a Classic without
>a floppy or hard drive?  And if you can, does it have Appletalk on the ROM
>system?  If that were true, the Classic could be used as part of the network,
>and the user wouldn't have to supply the system disk.  Also, then the Classic
>wuold be usable with just one drive and no hard drive, too.

MacWeek reported that the stripped-down System 6.0.2 in the Classic's ROM
comes with client AppleShare.  But of course you would not be able to 
run any INITs and I'm not sure how fonts are handled.  Seems to me that this
is an idea which needs some work before it becomes viable, and also one
that would be attractive only to the most financially-desperate institutional
user (given the slow speed of anything running off the server across 
AppleTalk).