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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: ROMs are Forever! & Reason for needing big boot disks
- Message-ID: <aland.714146439@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 14:00:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.015613.4068@ausom.oz.au>
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- wchang@ausom.oz.au (William Chang) writes:
-
- >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!
-
- That's the idea... ;) I only half agree with you re: the CD-ROMs of
- software... Those things store 600 MB, and are rarely full. So
- what if a few programs & files are there more than once. ;)
-
- >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 compromise would be that of a System CDROM that the Mac can bootup from.
- >Might be useful in the CDROM equipped Macs so rumoured.
-
- I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that there would still
- be the capability to 'patch' the system.
-
- *** Important note I just became consious of: ***
-
- You do realize that the System is in ROM now, at least in part, right?
- That the System file just contains the resources necessary to patch
- the ROM version of the system to whatever the current version is...
- THAT'S WHY SYSTEM 7 IS SO LARGE ON FLOPPY. Almost every Mac currently
- on a desktop has System 6-style ROMs. (Maybe this is old news to
- everyone else, but I just put 2 and two together and figured this out.
- ;)
-
- -=Alan
-