Re: Apple Lisa SCO Xenix boot floppy copy

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <1d68a208.0212191547.728e3af4@posting.google.com>,
Bryan Villados <news002@macgeek.org> wrote:
>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?

No.  The square pixels and modified ROM came out AFTER the name
change.  The original Mac XLs were just Lisa 2/10s with stickers on
the documentation with a line drawing of a Lisa and the words "Lisa is
now Macintosh XL".
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