Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 89 20:39:00 GMT References: <34114@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 Matt said... " It is highly unlikely that any kind of non-utility software will require anything present in ROM 3 and not present in ROM 1. It's certainly nicer, but all the functionality (except revised firmware for slots) is pretty much present in 5.0. " Uh...why wasn't the new slot firmware included in 5.0? Or can the System Disk simply patch, revise, and add tools, and not do other kinds of changes? (The control panel changed in the new version...) Is there an actual HARDWARE change in the was slot usage works?