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From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???
Message-ID: <1991May20.172418.24549@amd.com>
Date: 20 May 91 17:24:18 GMT
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In article <3177@shodha.enet.dec.com> m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com (Mario Herodotus) writes:
>--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
>


This fuss over the ROMs is really amazing. My recollection of Apple's
promise was that more than 16M would be available under AUX. Does
anything say that the memory would be available under Mac OS? Are you
sure that AUX doesn't satisfy Apple's advertising claims? Apple has
been willing to do a ROM upgrade in the past to provide significant
capability, ie., the 512K to 512Ke upgrade. They've unofficially said
that 32-bit clean is not sufficiently significant. In my opinion this
is a waste of energy unless you get 10s of thousands of dissatisfied
people or the press to say it's a problem.

Mike Ching