Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <34113@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 18:42:34 GMT References: <8908181021.AA14047@trout> <3893@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 23 In article <3893@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> sjklafke@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott James Klafke) writes: >[...] >There is also another problem, which I feel is the big one. SOFTWARE. Now the >developers will be producing for [the ROM 03 IIgs], and the //gs original >owners will be left out in the cold. [...] Why do you think this is going to happen? Sorry to rain on your paranoia, but the machines are extremely similar from a software point of view. The biggest difference is the amount of memory available--the ROM 03 machines come with 1152K on the motherboard. If you have a ROM 01 machine with only 512K or 768K, you may have to buy more memory. I don't think software developers are going to go out of their way to make their products incompatible with the existing machines. :-) --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.