Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Why more memory capability can be a significant hassle!! Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 22:40:44 GMT References: <1991Jun18.140625.7876@gorm.ruc.dk> Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes: > icapon@registry.adelaide.edu.au (Nick Capon) writes: > > >In article <53924@apple.Apple.COM> bc@apple.com (bill coderre) writes: > >> Remember that a ROM upgrade > >> ....... might cause compatibility or configuration hassles > >> for people that manage networks of Macs. > > >Seriously, how can more memory capability be a significant hassle?? > > Say I buy some new 32bit ROMs after finally having convinced management, that > lots of memory (VM or not) is great for geographic mapping projects, but > they'll only let me buy three sets of ROMs for installing in Mac-1, Mac-2 > and Mac-3. Three weeks later I'll spend 1/2 hour every day, explaining a > student why s/he can't work on Mac-4 with the map s/he created yesterday > on Mac-3! The problem here is your management, not the availability of ROM upgrades per se. The exact same problem would happen if you half-convinced your management to buy a logic board upgrade for the Macs in question, such that you end up with (say) three Mac IIcx's and three Mac IIci's. Apple isn't refusing to sell you new Macs out of concern for such problems. In fact, they just lowered the price of the upgrade to encourage you to go that route. All you need to do to save the half-hour-per-day you're claiming you'll lose is to put a sign on the machines in question. "This Mac doesn't have as much memory as the Mac next to it". And besides, in the above I fail to see how the student in question would be better off if there is *no* Mac to do what they want. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA