Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!bungia!meccts!meccsd!prw From: prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul R. Wenker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: //GS improvemenents Message-ID: <1013@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> Date: 20 Sep 88 13:30:44 GMT References: <8809192029.aa03156@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: prw@meccsd.UUCP (Paul R. Wenker) Organization: MECC Lines: 22 In article <8809192029.aa03156@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> CS656@OUACCVMB.BITNET writes: >The most frequent about the GS seems to be the boot time for the system. >Several of the PC clones have places to plug in chips containing programs. >An eprom version of the system would solve a lot of problems. If it was placed >in the correct memory location with a softswitch, like basic, there would be >no bootup time. Upgrades would simply be a matter of swapping out chips >(something which GS users should be used to :-) ) and Apple could recycle the >old ones for the next upgrade. I'm sure that this would necessitate a nominal >charge for upgrades but it should be worth it. Is this feasible, or am I >missing something? There is already support built into the GS for up to 512K of ROM disk. In theory, the ROM disk would show up like any other smartport device. I've never seen anybody use the idea, but it seems to have potential. BTW, the new Mac IIx has it's ROMs mounted as SIMMs. Talk about easy ROM upgrades. -Paul Wenker prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG -MECC, Technical Services