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From: m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com (Mario Herodotus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 32 bit clean ROMs for SE/30?
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Date: 8 Mar 91 02:50:59 GMT
References: <5476@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1991Mar7.151644.24339@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <91964@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <91964@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, tj@pons.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R
Johnson) writes:
>
>	How about false advertisement?  When I bought my SE/30 all the
>brochures said that it could use up to 128 megs of RAM with larger
>SIMMS and an updated OS.  They didn't mention that they botched the
>ROMS in the machine and weren't planning on upgrading them.  The
>greater memory limit is one of the reasons why I bought the machine.
>14 Megs is just not enough.
>
	I gotta agree with that, I bought my machine with the idea that I 
could use more than 14meg.  As a matter of fact the way they are set up 
I can't really use 14meg even.  If I buy 4meg SIMMs I waste 2meg (no thanks 
I don't want a 2meg RAM disk), or I'm stuck at 8meg max.  If apple thinks 
that just an increase in maximum memory is not enough of an upgrade, they
should read this group.  Most owners of SE30's and IIcx'x are screaming for
that.  They could add the CommTool box to the ROM if they think that would
make it a real upgrade.

	If anyone at Apple cares, I want my cx to have 32bit clean ROMS
like I was lead to believe it had.

--

Mario

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