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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they???
Summary: ROM upgrade forthcoming..
Message-ID: <11908@well.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 16:14:01 GMT
References: <11315@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
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In article <11315@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
> 
>   Over the years I've noticed that apple is moving more & more of the Mac's
> OS from the ROM's to RAM installed routines.  I don't know what the figures
> are but you'd be hard pressed to find a manager that doesn't have patches
> installed in RAM.  And with system 7.0 coming out it might even be that there's
> more OS in RAM than in the ROM's.  I realize there are advantages to RAM vs.
> ROM routines and this posting wasn't intended to start that sort of discussion

	For what it's worth - Apple commented during the developers conference
that there would be NEW ROMS (upgrades) available with System 7.0 so that you
would have MORE in ROM and LESS in RAM (so you can use your RAM for something
useful like running applications :-)

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