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From: carl@Apple.COM (Carl C. Hewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the ROM in the Portable?
Message-ID: <4438@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 89 17:30:49 GMT
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In article <1989Sep28.170214.5489@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
>c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) writes:
>>I just talked to a guy from Apple's New Product Support, and
>>he said that the Portable has 512K ROMs, including (for some 
>>reason or another) the code for 32-bit QuickDraw. Don't ask
>>ME why, I'm just reporting the facts as I hear them.
>
>  Not detracting from Mr. Lau's comments.  I'm sure he's just passing on
>what he heard.  But could someone from Apple verify this.  I was under the
>impression that much of Color QuickDraw, and therefore 32-Bit QD, was
>coded using '020 instructions, and therefore wouldn't work on a 68000 based
>machine.  If what Alex heard was indeed right, I'd love to hear some
>of the reason's why.

You are absolutely right.  The ROM in the Portable is 256k, and does not
contain Color Quickdraw since that requires at least an '020 to run on. 
I think the guy in New Product Support was thinking of the Mac IIci ROM
when he said it was 512k, and had 32-bit CQD.

-- Carl

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