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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROMs on SIMMs
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Date: 6 Oct 88 19:03:36 GMT
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>  Apple does indeed offer the SIMM ROM option. It's called a "Macintosh IIx".
>One of the features of the new IIx is the SIMM ROMs. Frankly, to me it
>seems like one of the best features (and something that should have come
>long ago...)

  My personal paranoia suggests that the reason for the SIMM ROM's are that
the IIx's roms are written in '020 code. Look for a new release optimized for
the '030 and its data cache.

Pierce

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