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From: bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan)
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Subject: Re: IIcx ROM Question
Summary: IIfx ROMs work in IIcx
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Date: 18 Jan 91 18:19:35 GMT
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>   [...]
>
>     LAst year at the developers conference, someone from Apple mentioned that
>   a IIcx could run just fine with IIci roms. I have not tried this yet, but
>   does raise a problem of how to get the IIci roms anyhow.......
>
>There's also the fact (rumor?) that IIci roms seem to be less
>compatible than most--at least, you hear about people having
>compatibility problems with a ci more often.  Or is that mainly
>because of the on-board video?
>

My friend claims to have used IIfx ROMs in a IIcx, but then supposedly
many applications would crash because of compatibility problems with
the IIfx.

But at least it works.

bill