ALE101@PSUVM.BITNET (Allen Edmiston) (01/04/90)
In article <1990Jan3.014720.8959@santra.uucp>, jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) says: >My description of the System ROMDisk was not clear enough, since Dave Platt >misunderstood an important part of the idea. > >I didn't suggest that you could fit a complete System disk in just 512K or >1MB. You wouldn't want to do that for many of the reasons that Dave just >mentioned. You could instead put a lot of stuff that is common to all and >that doesn't change often (like WDEF, CDEF, LDEF, PACK, FONT, ' snd', ...) >in the ROMdisk and open it at startup time. The mechanism should be built >in to the system and should work the way SuitCase currently does. >From what I have read, I gather that SuitCase functionality will be in >System 7.0 anyway, so moving a few resources to a ROM disk and keeping >the main system file on a regular floppy sounds like a relatively easy >thing to do. on the new machines there is a spot for a rom simm... mostly what i've read about it say that it's for future upgrades of the system and for testing the system out. maybe some day apple will sell an "extra" that will go into this spot to keep more system data (but what would be good, maybe a debugger?) ------- Adrian Sullivan Vice President - PAMUG Pennsylvania Apple/Mac UG (814) 238-4276