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Post #210,587
by tuberculosis
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6/9/05 4:06:29 AM
8/21/07 6:24:35 AM
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New ROM's gone long time now
Macs no longer have a big chunk of core capability burned into roms. It was making virtual memory management a pain so they simplified and chucked them.

OTOH, there's quite likely to be some built-in hardware dongly thing that the OS looks for or dies.


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Expand Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:24:35 AM EDT
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Post #210,594
by Another Scott
6/9/05 7:31:17 AM
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New Thanks.
     It's true. They're switching to x86 - (altmann) - (26) - June 6, 2005, 01:55:43 PM EDT
         Holy sith. - (rcareaga) - (1) - June 6, 2005, 02:26:25 PM EDT
             Me Too. - (pwhysall) - June 6, 2005, 02:51:43 PM EDT
         short term sales will probably drop - (SpiceWare) - June 6, 2005, 02:45:32 PM EDT
         Weather report from hell: -6 C, snow flurries -NT - (inthane-chan) - June 6, 2005, 03:20:45 PM EDT
         Does this mean... - (inthane-chan) - (20) - June 6, 2005, 03:22:19 PM EDT
             Re: Does this mean... - (pwhysall) - June 6, 2005, 04:14:26 PM EDT
             They say no - (tuberculosis) - (18) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:08:44 AM EDT
                 Gack! Who'd wanna do that??? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (3) - June 6, 2005, 05:53:09 PM EDT
                     All sorts of folks - (rcareaga) - (2) - June 6, 2005, 06:11:14 PM EDT
                         Lawyers like WordPerfect... - (admin) - June 6, 2005, 06:13:41 PM EDT
                         I got a hit. A really good one. - (folkert) - June 6, 2005, 08:49:43 PM EDT
                 Umm.. what happens to a nice Plexi-pretty '02 or 3 G-4? - (Ashton) - (6) - June 7, 2005, 12:40:12 AM EDT
                     I was going to order a cheesegrater this week... - (Meerkat) - June 7, 2005, 01:01:00 AM EDT
                     You're missing a lot. - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - June 7, 2005, 01:25:36 AM EDT
                         I've heard about 3/4 of Jobs' keynote. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 7, 2005, 06:43:27 AM EDT
                             3.6 GHz P4 -NT - (SpiceWare) - June 7, 2005, 10:16:56 AM EDT
                     It'll live a full and happy life - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:13:14 AM EDT
                         OK.. I don't know enough to be entitled - (Ashton) - June 8, 2005, 03:37:23 AM EDT
                 Apple will have to fight for that - (JayMehaffey) - (6) - June 8, 2005, 02:47:46 PM EDT
                     On the other hand... - (pwhysall) - June 8, 2005, 02:55:46 PM EDT
                     Where? - (Another Scott) - (3) - June 8, 2005, 03:03:39 PM EDT
                         Re: Where? - (JayMehaffey) - June 8, 2005, 06:17:15 PM EDT
                         ROM's gone long time now - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:24:35 AM EDT
                             Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott) - June 9, 2005, 07:31:17 AM EDT
                     Stupid ROM tricks - (ubernostrum) - June 8, 2005, 05:00:12 PM EDT
         Here's why (according to InfoWorld) - (drewk) - June 7, 2005, 10:54:42 PM EDT

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