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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
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Subject: Re: What is A/ROSE?
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Date: 27 May 91 19:21:29 GMT
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In article <1991May21.022750.13870@midway.uchicago.edu>, tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:
> What does the A/ROSE (I may be misremembering the exact filename, but that's
> the gist of it) System Extension on one of the System 7 installation disks do?
> I've loaded it, to no visible effect.

A/ROSE (Apple Realtime Operating System Extension) is used with intelligent
cards, such as the TokenTalk and newer EtherTalk cards.  It is an extension
to the base Mac OS that makes it easier to build intelligent NuBus cards
which include their own 68000 processors.

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