Re: And you thought Apple II users were screwed by Apple...

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

salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter) writes:
>It seems that the latest G3 Power Macs have a BIOS tweak to keep them from
>accepting the G4 upgrade cards that Apple had to know third-party
>manufacturers were going to produce.  Older G3s and other older systems will
>still be upgradable.

>Makes me glad I went with x86 boxen instead...
>... A manufacturer in this field, such as IBM or Compaq, would never be
>able to get away with this kind of nonsense because buyers would avoid them
>like the plague if word ever got out about something like this.)

You forget what IBM did with the IBM PC/AT. This ran at 6MHz but the crystal
was socketed and people found it would run at 8MHz. IBM changed the BIOS to
not boot if the clock speed was higher that standard. Then people came out
with a new clock circuit that started out at 6MHz and ramped up to 8MHz after
the BIOS code had been run.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia