OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..

From: Tom Owad <tomowad_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Jun 26 21:40:23 1998

>Apart from the ST, which has already been mentioned :
>BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, many older portables (Tandy 100, HP110, HP71
>and HP75 (almost), EPSON PX4 and PX8), there was a model of the Tandy
>1000 with MS-DOS in ROM, one of the Torch machines had a CP/M a-like in
>ROM, HP IPC, Tandy CoCo + disk controller (maybe this only counts as
>Basic in ROM), and plenty more that I've forgotten about

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.

Tom Owad

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Received on Fri Jun 26 1998 - 21:40:23 BST

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