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From: dean@mars.Berkeley.EDU (R. Drew Dean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Legal Tail Patches
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Date: 19 Feb 89 03:33:33 GMT
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In article <6562@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>...  I wish Apple would just stop using come-from tests
>altogether, and if the OS eats another 64K of RAM as a result, big fat
>hairy deal.  Maybe when RAM prices fall again next year....

>Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim

No, Tim, why doesn't Apple issue new ROMS, so we don't need these stupid
patches to begin with...They already take 60+K of RAM, which is very
significant for those of us who have to pay for our own memory, and therefore
currently have 1Mb..:-( [As a student who bought an SE in Oct. 87, I couldn't
save the money up to buy RAM before all h*ll broke loose....]  I suspect,
that with a little work, Apple could also plug some security holes in the
Resource Manager, as well...Remember that every SE ever shipped has 88Kb
of digitized pictures floating in the ROMs.  Get your code right, Apple !
Apple -- make new ROMs a upgrade that the user only pays for installation,
which should be about $30....(The ROMs are still socketed, right ?  If not,
foget this idea....)



Drew Dean
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