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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac clone rumor (long)
Message-ID: <106171@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 May 89 23:09:14 GMT
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In article <20335@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
> 
>       According to C.E.K.A, their 128K Mac ROMs are not only completely
> compatible with Apple's Mac ROMs, but run from 10 to 30 percent faster in
> most operations, due to the fact that they are written purely in 68000
> assembly language (Apple wrote their Mac ROMs using C).  

Interesting.  This must explain why Mac Toolbox calls take their
arguments in Pascal rather than C order.  And why the various C
implementations on the Mac use glue routines to pass parameters
correctly to and from the Toolbox routines.