Re: RE:wall of gs's in store

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <lj73503@pro-scat.cts.com>,
Loren S. Damewood <lorend@pro-scat.cts.com> wrote:
>In <128.48875703.Logic.IS@logicbbs.org> Jim.Low@logicbbs.org writes:
>>Many schools never upgraded their IIgs systems from ROM 01, and a ROM 01 is 
>>not much better than an expanded IIe.
>
>Pardon me, but I'm sure you're mistaken. The ROM 01 is almost as good as the
>ROM 03, its direct successor, and is much better than the ROM 00 which came
>out originally. The sequence had no logic behind it, but it is well known that
>Apple numbered them oddly, skipping "02" in a vain effort to achieve some
>consistancy -- an act which immediately made it impossible. ;-)

You got it backwards. ROM 3 is a total redesign and is much better than 01.
You only change one chip to make a ROM 0 a 01. Their differences are minor.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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