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From: phil@vaxphw.dec.com (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they???
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Date: 30 May 89 13:37:30 GMT
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In article <1111@draken.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes...
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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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}Dizco me to XtaC!        OOOOH LAAAH LAAAAA ! (c) HitHouse  -- No More --

At the Apple Developers Conf in San JOse 2 weeks ago, Apple said they WOULD be
replacing the ROMS 'on future machines that have ROM SIMMS' to put 
more/corrected system code in ROM, freeing RAM.
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