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From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: 32 bit clean ROMs for SE/30?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 15:16:44 GMT
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In article <5476@tellab5.tellabs.com> rapp@sunMg.tellabs.com (Chuck Rapp) writes:
> [The classic question - 32-bit clean ROMs for the SE/30?]

	Yet another one of those questions that's been bouncing around
for awhile without an answer.  I finally managed to find something
out, though, on ZMAC (That's MacWEEK's forum on Compuserve).

	It seems that Chris Espinoza of Apple (he's the head of the
System 7.0 project) has gone on the record last January as saying that
there will not be a ROM upgrade for the sole purpose of providing
32-bit memory addressing.  He stated that he believes that users would
expect more than that from a ROM upgrade.

	Read as: Apple doesn't think that making a ROM upgrade just to
let SE/30 and IIcx users address > 14 Mb RAM is worth the trouble.

	Let's hope they find other reasons to give a ROM upgrade.

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