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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ROM's & 7.0, what good are they???
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Date: 1 Jun 89 20:02:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jun  1 15:02:00 1989


> 	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 :-)


This sounds like a bad idea for Apple.  Won't dealers turn around and
resell the "old" ROMs, providing a slew of color quickdraw Mac clones?