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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Mac Rumours
Message-ID: <736@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 17:26:59 GMT
References: <1975@tank.uchicago.edu> <1998@pur-phy>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1998@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP
(Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
   | Mac programs make Toolbox calls.  If the whole shebang is redone, the
   | Toolbox will be scrapped.  I believe that the ROMs will be completely
   | rewritten, not just the System file.  At least that's the impression
   | I get.  People are talking Object Oriented, etc., and it's getting
   | harder and harder to tell truth from rumor, but I think the change is
   | going to be more drastic than rewriting the System file from scratch
   | to improve, since that won't change the functionality of the Mac much.

   | Of course they could call it the Mac III and have a Mac II compatibility
   | mode (gawd.).

I wonder how much of a deciding factor this might have been, in putting the
new ROMs on removable cards..(ala MacIIx etc)?  First thing I thought of
when I saw them, was "well that ought to be easy to upgrade".

   | -Sho

Stu.

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