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From: witkowsk@optilink.UUCP (Dave Witkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System in Classic ROM?
Message-ID: <5128@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 91 16:30:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan2.180849.26777@csn.org>
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From article <1991Jan2.180849.26777@csn.org>, by kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Andy Y.A. Kuo):
> 
>   From the Feb. 1991 issue of MacUser, page 13(reprint without permission):
> 
>   "The operating system has been built in to the Classic's ROM ever since
>    the Classic started shipping back in October.  To access it, hold down
>    Control-Option-X-O when you turn on your machine.  Your Classic will
>    then boot from a ROM-based RAM disk....."
>

Sounds wierd to me.  The number of changes that Apple makes to
the Mac OS, plus the pending upgrade to system 7.0 makes
having a ROM OS a waste of time and material.  You *might* get
six months max use out of the ROM version, then it would be
obsolete.  

Apple may be confused at times but they don't make
more work or expense for themselves than they have to.  A ROM
large enough to hold the OS would be much more expensive than
the 256K version used on the SE.


David Witkowski
optilink!witkowsk@uunet.uu.net