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From: clubmac@runx.OZ (Sydney University Macintosh Society)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported?
Message-ID: <581@runx.OZ>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 01:46:54 EST
Article-I.D.: runx.581
Posted: Fri Jan  9 01:46:54 1987
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Reply-To: James Tiberius Kirk@runx.OZ (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
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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're a company or a university or some such thing, and you
>bought dozens or hundreds of Macs before the Plus became a reality.
>(This was mentioned before, but I'll repeat it.  I don't think it will
>do any good, since you seem to have had your mind made up before you
>asked the question.)

    Now this is a valid point - 100s of ROM/Drive Upgrades = BIG BUCKS

>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.

    I am *NOT* saying "Get a ROM/Drive Upgrade or Else!", I am in no position
    to make such demands.

    The point I was making was that if an individual doesn't have the money
    to spend on a ROM/Drive Upgrade, he obviously hasn't the money to buy
    software, and is therefore out of the market for that software.

    There is a considerable body of software which appeals to individuals
    and *NOT* corporations. So, if you can write a better program using
    128K ROMs than 64K ROMs, and your program targets affluent individuals,
    then I say "Go ahead and ignore the 64K ROM machines!".

    Apple has gone out of its way to make the upgrades affordable. If there
    are people who cannot get any of the upgrades, that's OK. But pampering
    to 64K ROM users who haven't got the money to buy the software seems a
    little more than odd.

    Features like window zooming are easy to case out - HOWEVER, there are
    many other routines in the 128K ROMs that cannot be. You can always
    write some workaround code if you want, but this 64K ROM implementation
    is likely to be inferior to the 128K ROM one.