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From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R  Falkenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Speed of Mac IIx
Summary: Actually ROM slot are probably a good idea
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Date: 22 Sep 88 16:41:00 GMT
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In article <599@ardent.UUCP>, kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) writes:
> I thought that putting the ROMS on a SIMM board was the cutest thing about
> the new board.  Doubt that I'll be running out to swap motherboards any time
> soon.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Wallich 			 	
> Ardent Computer Corp			uunet!ardent!kmw
> Sunnyvale, California, USA		"Slimey? Mud hole? My HOME this is!"

ROM slots may be a good idea in the long run-- no motherboard swap needed if
apple makes the changes they're probably working on for newer OSs.

Actually, the real advantage of the '030 is not to the customer, but to the
manufacturer.  They don't take up more board space to put an MMU in (or
need to beef up power either).  I also here that the '030's built in MMU
kills a wait state that the '851 chip introduced when it was added.

-dave falkenburg
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