Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!carl 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 References: <10943@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov> <18889@ut-emx.UUCP> <17766@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1989Sep28.170214.5489@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 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 -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | internet: carl@apple.com | Apple Computer, Mac CPU ROM group | | applelink: carl | uucp: {sun,decwrl}!apple!carl | \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/