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From: ph@ssd.kodak.com (Pete Hoch)
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Subject: Re: 'Dirty' ROMs - A Partial Answer <-- NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
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Date: 3 Jun 91 17:11:00 GMT
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In article <54183@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes:
>In article <1991May21.032658.5617@umbc3.umbc.edu>, cs421317@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs421317) writes...
>>I asked them what I should do to use more than ~13 meg of RAM and their answer
>>was, 'Have you heard of a company called Connectix...?' They said that was
>>the answer. 

>>Does anyone know if this IS the answer? Have you heard any more detail about
>>MODE32? How completely functional is it? Do I just drop it in the Extensions
>>and never worry about this problem again?
>
>This is the 128 megabyte question, isn't it?
>
>Several months ago I posted into one of the first "dirty-ROMS" threads
>with the suggestion that a ROM-patching init would probably solve the
>problem without new ROMS.  That suggestion was batted down and generally
>flamed by several net.experts who offered various technical explanations
>as to why an init-fix wouldn't work.  I believe that some of those people 
>were Apple hardware guys, and some of the explanations were convincing.
>
>I would imagine that there are quite a few people at Apple who are now 
>working overtime trying to figure out just exactly HOW Connectix tricked 
>the System into 32-bit-cleanliness.

First of all Connectix has had the know how to patch the OS and then reboot
the system since Virtual was released.  Next why do you think that a patch
of the ROM that works for 7.0 will break under 7.0.1 or anything else.  Are
your ROM routines going to change?  This in fact should be one of the most
stable inits ever released because the object that is acts on is cast in
silicon.  Probably the most difficult part is making sure the init is run
in front of a lot of others.

>MODE32 will not be a software-only fix.  Connectix plans to bundle it 
>with PMMUs for Mac II owners, and probably bundle it with overpriced 
>memory upgrades for the impatient and/or gullible.

Actualy I am waiting for the bundle.  I only have 8 Meg right now and
32-Bit mode does little for me until I buy 4 Mb SIMMs.  I figure by
Boston MacWorld several of the SIMM vendors from the back of MacWeek will
have these SIMM & MODE32 bundles however historicly these have been
far from overpriced.

Pete Hoch

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