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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why do Macs have ROMs?
Message-ID: <870181@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 88 20:30:37 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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The Mac ROMs are the reason why all Mac programs have such a nice consistent
user-interface:  all the user-interface subroutines (which are used to create 
windows, icons, dialog boxes, etc.) are burned into the ROM.  Programmers
just call them, rather than making up their own. 

-Ted