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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported?
Message-ID: <872@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 13:46:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 12 13:46:06 1987
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References: <476@runx.OZ> <1490@hoptoad.uucp> <907@ur-tut.UUCP> <4939@reed.UUCP> <581@runx.OZ>
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In article <581@runx.OZ>, clubmac@runx.OZ (Sydney University Macintosh Society) writes:
> In article <764@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:
> >In article <531@runx.OZ>, baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes:
> >> I have yet to see one good reason why people with Macs are not getting the
> >> ROM/Drive upgrade. Surely most Mac users want that extra power that the new
> >> ROMs and new 800K drive give them over the vanilla 512K.
> 
> >Suppose you have a Mac, and would really like to upgrade but such mundane
> >things food, rent, clothes for the kids keep getting in the way.  People
> >actually find themselves in this situation.
> 
>     Now, are these same people going to have money to spend on a program you
>     have written? I doubt it. If they don't have US$300 to spend on an upgrade
>     they don't have money to spend on software.

Your question at this point was not "should 64K ROMs be supported?,"
but "why not get an upgrade?"  So your reply, though factually true,
is irrelevant to the question you asked.

You are also making the assumption that the programs in question
are programs to be *sold* - an assumption that does not always apply,
and in my case, never applies.


Getting back to the original question, I guess Servant's policy seems
to me a reasonable one - it announces that it doesn't work with the 64K
ROM, waits for a click in the OK box, and exits.  It's polite, and it
doesn't crash and burn.

By the way, you'll be happy to know that I got a ROM upgrade (today!),
so I'm no longer a brainless idiot.  :-)

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