Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the ROM in the Portable? Message-ID: <416@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 16:13:08 GMT References: <10943@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov> <18889@ut-emx.UUCP> <17766@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 16 In article <17766@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> 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. I doubt it has color QD in it .... it's full of BEXTU's and other instructions that 68000 and 68010 chips don't support Paul -- Paul Campbell UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul AppleLink: D3213 "Free Market": n. (colloq.) a primitive fertility goddess worshipped by an obscure cult in the late 20th C. It's chief priest 'Dow Jones' was eventually lynched by an enraged populace during an economic downturn (early 21st C).