OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintosh - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Jun 1998

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 > I belive Apple's Newtons have the OSes in ROM.
 They certainly do boot 
> quickly and a chip swap is need to upgrade the OS. 
...
  Later Newts, including the eMate, are flash
upgradable.  A quick boot
 doesn't require a ROM OS, though. 
Flash upgradable ? Huh ? Did I miss something ?
Afaik my MP2K still has ROMS not Flash for the
OS. Same for the eMate.

Gruss
H.

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HRK