Re: Apple Lisa SCO Xenix boot floppy copy

[news002@macgeek.org (Bryan Villados)]

russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote in message news:<oLCcnT5tHKOpuZ-jXTWcpQ@speakeasy.net>...
> In article <M3mM9.152283$2z1.42566698@twister.socal.rr.com>,
> Bryan Villados <news002@macgeek.org> wrote:
> >A Lisa 2 is NOT a Macintosh XL.
> Certainly it is.
> 
> >The difference is the ROM and the video support.
> 
> Nope.  The name change came before they started shipping them with
> square pixels and a modified ROM.

There! You just said it! Comparing what you said with what I said:

"squared pixels" = "difference is video support"
"modified ROM" = "difference is the ROM"

Wouldn't you say, then, that there is a difference between the Lisa 2
and the Mac XL using that logic? My Lisa 2 still has the ellipsed
pixels, and I can still run Lisa Office. When you upgrade the Lisa 2
to a Macintosh XL using the upgrade kit that Apple shipped, it
castrated it so that it can only run Macintosh System software, and it
can no longer run Lisa Office.

The Macintosh XL, when purchased as a Macintosh XL, cannot run Lisa
Office, period, without downgrading the ROMs to the original Lisa 2
ROMs. So if it can't run Lisa Office, it isn't a Lisa 2. That's where
I'm coming from with this.

--- Bryan