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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Software patch for Dirty ROMs from Connectix?
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Date: 7 May 91 23:23:17 GMT
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jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:

}They don't ever claim that your system is 32-bit clean when using
}MODE32, just that you can get at the 32-bit controls with a 24-bit
}machine.  So, you can "access 32-bit mode," but is it as stable as
}Apple's clean-ROM machines running 32-bit mode?

What would be the point in simply making the control accessible if the machine
didn't work in 32-bit mode?  Besides, if all they did was give you a different
cdev with the control enabled, I doubt they would try to sell it for $169! :-)

}I know Connectix has a good rep, but I am a little leery that they'll
}give me 32-bit clean ROMs when apple won't/can't.
                                      ^^^^^

It's not that they can't.  I think you got it right the first time.

}If it works, it's a pretty decent alternative to upgrading to a IIfx!

If it works, then that software, combined with a Radius Rocket Accelerator (!)
will be a pretty decent (& cost effective) alternative to upgrading to a IIfx!

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