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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bit Clean ROM upgrade - list created.
Keywords: SE/30, IIcx, 32-bit Clean
Message-ID: <822@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 91 21:58:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.155525.2416@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1991Apr16.155525.2416@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> newroms-l-request@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes:
>
>	But, unlike the II and IIx, the IIcx and SE/30 have socketed
>ROMs.  An upgrade to 32-bit Clean ROMs seemed the obvious things.
>Apple, however, hasn't said a single word, and has even given
>indication that the idea hasn't "offically" occured to them.
>

Not true! Mac IIs and IIxs have socketed ROMs and those of us with
those machines would also like to use 32-bit addressing/VM etc
(I want to be able to run VERY big hardware simulations - I guess I'll
have to buy a Sun :-). What Mac IIs don't have are those funny
ROM sim sockets that no-one has ever used.

I suspect that what Apple doesn't want to happen is to end up with a whole 
lot of bootleg ROMs out there being used in clones - too much paranoia.

I think that the only solution might be for us all to do a public domain
memory manager (32-bit clean of course) and post it to the net (with
a copy-left of course) ... gee if enough of us did this with enough
bits of the OS ..... (but then apple doesn't really care about us do they ?)


	Paul
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