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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Subject: Re: Why more memory capability can be a significant hassle!!
Message-ID: <1991Jul1.043413.1006@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 04:34:13 GMT
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In article <54335@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander) writes:
>|It won't take long for users to figure out that there's a big difference
>|between a "Macintosh SE/30" and a "Macintosh SE/30-cr" [clean-ROM]
  [Note:  I was responding here to a poster who hypothesized that 
  sysadmins would be spending massive amounts of time explaining to
  users why apparently identical machines had different functionality.]
>
>And that's exactly the reason that site managers might not want to
>upgrade: they expect Macs to work the same....
 
Come on, Bill:  suppose Apple takes my suggestion--they're welcome to
it: I'll gladly sell the sticker idea and my rights to "SE/30-cr" 
for one SE/30 32-bit clean ROM upgrade kit, installed  ;-).  So the
site manager of a college lab decides to have half their SE/30s
upgraded, leaving the sysadmins to deal with a lab where half the 
Macs say SE/30 on the front and the other half say SE/30-cr.  Just
exactly how does this situation differ from that of a similar lab
where--right now, today--they have a bunch of Macs of which half
say IIcx on the front and the others say IIci?

>bill coderre
>who frankly doesn't need more than 8M at once
 
You will, Bill, you will....
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu          |     Macintosh Users Group