Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: ROM 3 Message-ID: <890818194752.966839@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Date: 18 Aug 89 19:47:00 GMT Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 Perhaps all the fuss could be settled by answering one question: does the new ROM 3 provide anything that isn't either in SysDisk 5 or could be provided by RAM "patches" to the existing ROM-based tools? In short, I'm only guessing, but I suspect 90% of its value is that what it does contain doesn't need to be loaded from disk or harddrive, but if you added the extra 128K to your RAM memory you'd have some chance of it staying resident anyway.