Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!zen From: zen@utcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported? Message-ID: <1987Jan11.114810.25147@utcs.uucp> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 11:48:10 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.1987Jan11.114810.25147 Posted: Sun Jan 11 11:48:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 12:35:16 EST References: <476@runx.OZ> <1490@hoptoad.uucp> <907@ur-tut.UUCP> <4939@reed.UUCP> <531@runx.OZ> <764@uwmacc.UUCP> <581@runx.OZ> Reply-To: zen@utcs.UUCP (Nick Zentena) Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX Lines: 42 Checksum: 09827 In article <581@runx.OZ> James Tiberius Kirk@runx.OZ (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: >In article <764@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes: >>In article <531@runx.OZ>, baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes: > > 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. One problem with the above. If I had the choice between buying a good piece of software OR getting a drive upgrade I'd get the software. Just because people can't justify the expense of the drive doesn't mean they can't justify software. -- Nick Zentena zen@utcs {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid} I don't need no stinking signature