Re: What is the difference between ROM 1 and ROM 3 IIgs computers?

[Horstmann Andre <andre.horstmann@unifr.ch>]

Pim Blokland wrote:
> Virtually all toolboxes that come with GS/OS 6.01 have a newer version
> number than the toolboxes that the ROM 3 machine has in ROM. This means
> that any desktop application that uses the formal tool call entries to
> start up the tools, load the tools from the system disk into RAM.
> So a ROM 3 machine may be faster under system 5.0, but not so under
> 6.01.

All I can say is that the QuickDraw Speedtest runs slightly faster on
Bernie with ROM 3 than with ROM 01 (under System 6.01). Bernie makes no
difference between executing code in ROM or RAM in terms of speed, so I
guess there must be some other trick that makes ROM 3 machines a little
faster.

- andre

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