Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!steele From: steele@unc.UUCP (Oliver Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported? Message-ID: <465@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 15:15:02 EST Article-I.D.: unc.465 Posted: Sat Dec 27 15:15:02 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Dec-86 03:38:21 EST References: <476@runx.OZ> <1490@hoptoad.uucp> <907@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: steele@unc.UUCP (Oliver Steele) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 26 What does a Mac+ have, that a Mac(-?) doesn't have, that people want to write programs that take advantage of? Are these things 1) Functions that add efficiency but not functionality (e.g.: the NoQuiche patches)? 2) Functions that are in ROM in Mac+ and PACK in Mac- (e.g.: List Manager)? 3) Functions that can be easily called conditionally (e.g.: Zoombox handling)? 4) More memory/disk capacity? 5) Added functionality that can't easily be patched in (e.g.: fractional font widths)? 6) Something else? 4) isn't really a difference between Mac+/-. Only 5) and 6) justify the creation of incompatable programs. As a technote-deprived user, I haven't heard of anything in these two categories that would be useful to most programs. From the fervency of this discussion, I assume that there are other enhancements. What are they? -- Oliver Steele----------------------------------steele@unc When a tree dies, ...!{decvax,ihnp4}!mcnc!unc!steele plant another in its place. steele%unc@csnet-relay.csnet