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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions -- Esoniq
Message-ID: <51158@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 91 02:48:14 GMT
References: <8359@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <8359@crash.cts.com> aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) writes:

>Well, look at the ROM 01 then ROM 02 then ROM 3.  The ROM 02 was killed off
>fast.  My friend has an 02. 

No he doesn't.  We never made a ROM 02 machine.  We went straight from ROM 01
to ROM 03 because internally we referred to the ROM 01 machine as the ROM 2.0
machine because we had a ROM 00 machine (the stuff that the GS first shipped
with before we gave the upgrade to ROM 01).  Before our customers and
developers got too confused, we changed the external version number to match
what the internal version number of the ROM actually was (and actually, it
matches the QuickDraw II major release number).

So yeah, ROM 00 was actually ROM 1.0, ROM 01 was ROM 2.0, and ROM 03 was
ROM 3.0, we skipped ROM 02.

andy

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