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From: chari@juniper.uucp (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROMs on SIMMs
Message-ID: <5268@juniper.uucp>
Date: 7 Oct 88 17:41:33 GMT
References: <375@rondo.randvax.UUCP> <10330047@eecs.nwu.edu> <8224@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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In article <8224@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>>  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.

It may be partially for that reason but, I hear from the various rumor columns
that the new ROMs will be totally object-oriented. Sounds nice doesn't it?
Sounds kind of like a NeXt doesn't it?i

Chris
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