Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!franny.Berkeley.EDU!c8s-an From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the ROM in the Portable? Message-ID: <17766@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 07:32:09 GMT References: <10943@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov> <18889@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 34 In article <18889@ut-emx.UUCP> xdaa374@emx.UUCP (Bill Douglass) writes: >In article <10943@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov> dlv059@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Votaw) writes: >>At Apple's rollout last week we heard about the new 512K ROM in the IIci, >>but no mention was made of the ROM in the Portable. Is it a 512K also, >>or is it a 256K like the SE/II? > >According to a local Apple tech support person, the portable has the >SE ROMs (no color quickdraw, etc.) This makes some sense, because the >portable uses the 68000 processor. 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. >The machine seems faster than as SE. Also very good screen, with 640x480 >display. And the slots (it has 4) are acc3essible without tools or a lot >of idsassembly work. Nice looking eachine. It should seem faster than an SE, the clock speed is twice as fast and the RAM is 100ns. Yes, it has 4 slots; only one of them is a "processor-direct" slot. One is only for static RAM caching, one is only for internal modems, one is only for static RAM upgrades. The one left over is the "PDS". >Bill Douglass, TCADA --- Alex UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!franny!c8s-an INTERNET: c8s-an%franny.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu FIDONET: Alex.Lau@bmug.fidonet.org (1:161/444)