Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!iscuva!jimc
From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROMs on SIMMs
Message-ID: <2066@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 88 23:02:37 GMT
References: <375@rondo.randvax.UUCP> <10330047@eecs.nwu.edu> <8224@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <5268@juniper.uucp>
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In article <5268@juniper.uucp> chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley) writes:
>>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?

Oooohhhh!  Now I can't wait for those new object-oriented keyswitches and 
object-oriented line cords to become available too!

Incidentally, socketed ROMs existed in this world long before they were placed
on a SIMM carrier.  My Mac 128K has them.  So why all the fuss?  Aren't they
socketed in the Mac II?

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