Re: Big Apple question

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

johnw@Southcoast.net (John Wolf) writes:
>Why did Apple dump their CLI ProDOS system?  For example, PC's even P2's
>still all have DOS on the ROM, and that is why you have extended memory

Very few PCs have DOS in ROM. All they have is the lower level BIOS that
DOS can use to control disks/video/ports etc.

>I hear that PC clone companies will be doing the same and putting windows
>2000 in the ROM of all PC's manafactured.

I very much doubt that. How much space does Win98 or Win NT take on a hard
disk. Now imagine the cost of that much Flash ROM (to allow for bug fixes).
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au