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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they???
Message-ID: <1111@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 29 May 89 21:00:34 GMT
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Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
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The figures for ROM/RAM (on the Mac IIx I use at school):

ROM 256Kb
RAM 570Kb

which, with a bit reduction for fonts and DAs and such in memory (all
of them aren't) gives the ratio ROM:RAM 1:2. This gets worse when you
consider that much of the RAM OS REPLACES the Rom OS... But nowadays,
the ROM OS is on RAM SIMMS, capable of storing up to 16Mb ROM (this
comes from a TechNote) so there should be no big deal updating the
ROMs, now, sould it, Apple ? :-)

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