Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!cmhgate!p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Adam.Frix From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) Sender: ufgate@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ??? Message-ID: <266621.283C3281@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Date: Wed, 22 May 91 01:47:45 EST Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH cs421317@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs421317) writes: C> However, all the reasons why we need a ROM swap for the presently C> existing machines still exist. Somebody, please! Tell me: why do you need a **ROM SWAP?** You need to change some code concerning how the System runs, correct? You need new ROMs to do this?????? The answer, of course, is a big fat NO. Apple designed the System file as a way to patch and enhance the ROMs (among other things). So, all Apple has to do is patch the dirty ROMs in a System update, via the System file. I repeat, as loud as necessary for the whole world to hear: YOU DON'T NEED ROM SWAPS TO GAIN THE FUNCTIONALITY YOU'RE ALL CRAVING. This whole issue of ROM swaps, and how it should be done, what the deposit (core charge?) should be on old ROMs, why Apple doesn't want ROM SIMMs floating around, how many man-years it would take Apple to develop new ROMs, etc., etc. is a smoke screen. You're all missing the forest for the trees. As long as Apple's patch code can all fit into the first 8 MB of physical RAM that the ROMs can handle, then the patch can take over and you can use as much RAM as your machine is designed to handle. This completely-software patch, of course, has the added advantage of being **EASILY UPGRADEABLE** when need be. Suppose Apple provides you all with new ROM SIMMs for, say, $250. Six months later, a new feature comes out in a new System update, and this feature requires something in the ROMs that isn't there. Everyone that's been bitching so far would *then* bitch that Apple gave them a ROM SIMM upgrade, and is continuing to do so, at $250 a pop. With a firmware solution, Apple can't and won't win. The physical ROM chip contains computer code. You all need different computer code. Must it reside on the physical chip? NO. So keep screaming for a new ROM, and miss the entire issue at hand. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!20.18!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG