Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!shodha.enet.dec.com!csc32.enet.dec.com!m_herodotus From: m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com (Mario Herodotus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ??? Message-ID: <3177@shodha.enet.dec.com> Date: 19 May 91 15:30:21 GMT References: <674452930.0@blkcat.FidoNet> <3171@shodha.enet.dec.com> <1991May19.033448.23080@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@shodha.enet.dec.com Reply-To: m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com (Mario Herodotus) Organization: Digital Equipment Corp (CX03 1/J3), Colorado Springs, Co 80919 Lines: 34 --In article <1991May19.033448.23080@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, nkb@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Norman K Bucknor) writes: >I sympathize with those wanting 32-bit clean ROM upgrades but I wonder >about this "Apple promised us" stuff. Does it say anywhere in the documentation >that Apple *will* provide a ROM upgrade path ? Or does it simply say that >there is a *possibility* of an upgrade. Makes a big difference as to Apple's >legal obligations. I don't have a Mac with a ROM slot, so I don't know >what those manuals say but I don't think I've seen in any review or ad that >Apple guarantees replacement of the current ROMs with the latest > and greatest chipset. And before you flame me for picking nits, I would really >like to know if such a guarantee exists. > >Norman Norman, the point was never that Apple promised a ROM upgrade. The point is that the manuals for these CPUs say that they can address more then the 16M of memory that they adress. We are just saying that since these machines are ROM upgradable we would like the upgrade to get what our manuals and Apples advertising claim for these machines. Mario ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I can't afford my own opinions, and DEC won't pay for them either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mario Herodotus [ CX03 1/K3 ] | m_herodotus@coors.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation | Customer Support Center | - or - m_herodotus%coors.dec@decwrl.dec.com 305 Rockrimmon Blvd. | Colorado Springs, CO 80919 | - or - ...!decwrl!coors.dec.com!m_herodotus | (800) 525-6570 Ext 25520 | - or - CSC32::M_HERODOTUS [direct line (719) 592-5520] | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------