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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 32 bit clean ROMs for SE/30?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 22:33:56 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.151644.24339@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:
>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.

Lemmee get this straight:  A user should expect more from a ROM upgrade than
that it increases his maximum available memory from O(10 MB) to O(5 GB)?
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