>>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.
Yes, but the boot is quite slow. My MP2k needs something
like 40 seconds to boot..
Gruss
H.
(fyi MPs normaly never boot - only at first power up or
reset - they just sleep all the time :)
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Tue Jun 30 1998 - 08:12:26 BST