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From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000SE: possible to use ROM C: drive?
Keywords: n
Message-ID: <1091@rna.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 04:33:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.014550.8002@ecf.utoronto.ca> <1991Feb27.215507.1178@csi.uottawa.ca>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Root Beer)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <1991Feb27.215507.1178@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne (055908)) writes:
>How would one "use" that ROM differently?  It's Read Only Memory, which
>means that its contents can't be changed...  Have you heard of some alternative
>ROM chip that can be plugged in instead?  I can't think of any OTHER way
>of changing the use of the C: ROMS...
>
>>Compared to the size of memory T10000SE has, that part memory (256k) is 
>>really a waste.  What's more puzzling is that T1000SE's C drive, the ROM
>>drive, does NOT have a whole version of DOS.  I wonder why.

	My understanding is that that space is not wasted. Its not even
there. They just built the DOS filesystem on a device that had an extra 256k
on it, then did a binary dump of that device onto ROM, without the blank 256k.
	In fact, newer versions of the T1000SE, I believe, don't say that
they have 256K free. They say zero free. This new ROM also has at least one
tiny bug change: When I bought my T1000SE, it was February, 1990. The NOW
program on the T1000SE misspelled it as Febuary. The new ROM corrects that
misspelling. I don't know if it corrected anything else, other than the
256k free. You can check the correction by TYPE C:NOW.* and look for February.

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