Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!aslakson From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: How to write to Apple Message-ID: <1991Jun30.222108.21472@cs.umn.edu> Date: 30 Jun 91 22:21:08 GMT References: <54119@apple.Apple.COM> ,<54285@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Jun26.193006.25424@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Organization: :noitazinagrO Lines: 24 gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes: >In article <54285@apple.Apple.COM>, bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes: >> [in reference to the "Dirty" ROM debate...] >>Therefore, at major installed sites, there would be violent opposition >>to upgrading, since it's a logistical problem, and if there were an >>upgrade, it would have to be to all of the machines at once, so that >>all the machines are "the same." >2) I defy you to show me a single "major installed site" in which the >computer environment is completely homogenous. Where everyone is >using the same model of computer, with the same RAM and HD and >software. Where nobody is using a IIci, IIfx, or IIsi. 32-bit Clean Jeez yes. We have Plus's, SE's, an SE/30, II's, IIci's, and one of these days, something else. All sorts of different things going on here, different monitors, harddrives, cards... And all of this just in the CSci Department. Other Departments and Labs are the same way. -- Brian Aslakson <-= upsetting Pax Heinous since 1990. brian@cs.umn.edu (mail) aslakson@cs.umn.edu (talk) mac-admin@cs.umn.edu (Me!!)