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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the ROM in the Portable?
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Date: 28 Sep 89 07:32:09 GMT
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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

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