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From: nicholaa@pro-carolina.UCSD.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
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Subject: New IIgs ROMs
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 01:12:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 01:12:28 1987
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Evidently, apple has finally done something worthwhile for the gs and given
us a brand new ROM.. sort of.

According to a mail message that my dealer received n Apple-Link (and read to
me.. and which I saw) the new ROM upgrade is "required to run the new system
utilities."  Meaning, of course, ProDOS 2.0

Evidently, there is not enough space for ProDOS 2.0 and the RAM patches to the
code in the toolbox, so apple decided to hard-code them into the rom and make
it permanent.  They also seem to have played "crunch-it" with the code enough
to compact the toolsets (through efficient coding, one would guess.. and hope)
so that they could fit 1 or 2 more toolsets from the RAM toolsets into ROM,
now that they are fairly sure the RAM sets are somewhat (and I use that term
loosely) "bug free."  Give it your best shot as to what the stuck into ROM...
my guess would be the menu manager and the window manager. and of the older,
well-planned toolsets would be a good guess.

also.. and this is only pure speculation... but the new sets are "supposed" to
have increased menu managing speed by a factor of 3.  The new sets are
supposed to bring back "QuickDraw" instead of "SlothDraw"... also, some folks
on CIS are talking about beta-copies of ProDOS 16 - 2.0 and are saying that it
boosts speed increases by some 700%.  Wow.  That's 2.5 times faster than
diversi-cache... it should really kick rump.

You can tell if you have the new ROMs if you boot your machine and it says on
EACH and EVERY boot:

                             Apple IIgs








               Copyright Apple Computer, Inc  ROM Rev 01

That's not exact, but close to what it says... if you have the new roms, do us
some favors, and see what's new about them.  see if there are any new
toolsets, stuff like that.  Also, weird, but the gs diagnostics v2.0 yield a
version number of 6!!! for the rom...

Andy

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