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- From: wchang@ausom.oz.au (William Chang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: ROMs are Forever!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.015613.4068@ausom.oz.au>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 01:56:13 GMT
- Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne
- Lines: 30
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- With all this discussion on System software in ROM, I just had to
- put my 2 cents in...
-
- After mucking around with the Classic's ROM bootup disk, I've come to
- hate ROM disks. This hate also stems from use of CDROMs of PD software
- on which many programs are duplicated.
-
- Basically, you can't change anything!
-
- For system software like that on the Mac, I love to personalise things.
- I doubt anyone will be able to do that on ROM machines.
-
- A good example is that of the HP Palmtop PC. Even its AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- (to Mac users, this is a BATch file that merely loads stuff on startup)
- is in ROM, and there is no way I can change it if I want to bootup into
- a different application.
-
- A compromise would be that of a System CDROM that the Mac can bootup from.
- Might be useful in the CDROM equipped Macs so rumoured.
-
- Gee! This will save 5MB on the HDD!
-
- CYA, World!
-
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