MAC II ROM Upgrade

[Les Kay]

[Take that, you fiend!]

In article <8546 at apple.Apple.Com> phil at apple.UUCP (Phil Ronzone) writes:
|In article <1895 at polyslo.UUCP> lchirica at polyslo.UUCP (Laurian Chirica) writes:
||Quote from Info World, April 11, 1988:
||
||"Mac II users looking for more fire-power might ask their dealers
||for the free ROM upgrade required to run A/UX.  I am not saying to
||pay the $4,000 or so to actually buy A/UX; just get the ROM upgrade.
||It is free, it gets you a brand-new mother board, and makes disk
||accesses under Finder twice as fast.  No wonder Apple has been so
||quiet about this freebie."
||Question:  Does anyone know anything more about this?  My dealer
||knows nothing.
||Laurian M. Chirica  (lchirica at polyslo.UUCP)
|
|From the unofficial rumor-quenching arena -- no, you DON'T have to get
|any kind of ROM upgrade, OR any upgrade whatsoever to run A/UX. All you
|need is minimum of 2MB memory and a PMMU plugged into the socket. This is
|a bizarre rumor -- because I can't think of anything that it could remotely
|be based on. I mean, if there is a brand-new motherboard out, we here in
|Apple Software Engineering might like to get a few for testing purposes ...
|:-) :-) etc. Perhaps there was some kind of a third party announcement
|that got garbled???
|-- 
|Philip K. Ronzone, A/UX Technical Manager                   APPLELINK: RONZONE1
|Apple Computer, Mail Stop 27AJ, 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd.  Cupertino, CA  95014
|UUCP:  ...!{sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual,unisoft}!apple!phil


Philip,

I'll buy that you don't need to upgrade in any way to run A/UX, but what if
you want to have more than a meg of ram on a nubus card?  You do need a ROM
upgrade for that and Apple is apperently getting ready to release this.
As for wether this will be free or not is no in my metier.

If you can't diseminate information about an, as yet, unannounced product,
that is fine, but please do not diseminate misinformation or worse yet
disinformation.  While not officially announced, it is a fairly well established
fact that it will happen and MUST happen unless the Mac II is to be closed to
large applications, which, under unix, when running in conjunction with
other tasks, can very easily require more than the what, 14 megs the system
can handle now.

Les

Disinformation specialist

8^) <---See, I'm smiling, the above was not a flame, just an irk.
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