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From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: MAC II ROM Upgrade
Message-ID: <8546@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 18 Apr 88 20:33:05 GMT
References: <1895@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@apple.UUCP (Phil Ronzone)
Organization: Apple Computer A/UX Group
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Keywords: MAC II, ROM Upgrade, A/UX

In article <1895@polyslo.UUCP> lchirica@polyslo.UUCP (Laurian Chirica) writes:
>Quote from Info World, April 11, 1988:
>
>"Mac II users looking for more fire-power might ask their dealers
>for the free ROM upgrade required to run A/UX.  I am not saying to
>pay the $4,000 or so to actually buy A/UX; just get the ROM upgrade.
>It is free, it gets you a brand-new mother board, and makes disk
>accesses under Finder twice as fast.  No wonder Apple has been so
>quiet about this freebie."
>Question:  Does anyone know anything more about this?  My dealer
>knows nothing.
>Laurian M. Chirica  (lchirica@polyslo.UUCP)

From the unofficial rumor-quenching arena -- no, you DON'T have to get
any kind of ROM upgrade, OR any upgrade whatsoever to run A/UX. All you
need is minimum of 2MB memory and a PMMU plugged into the socket. This is
a bizarre rumor -- because I can't think of anything that it could remotely
be based on. I mean, if there is a brand-new motherboard out, we here in
Apple Software Engineering might like to get a few for testing purposes ...
:-) :-) etc. Perhaps there was some kind of a third party announcement
that got garbled???

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