[WinMac] Re: Floppyless iMac (WinMac Digest #221 - 02/08/99)

Michael bartosh(bartosh[at]tamu.edu)
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:14:05 -0600

> The Mac OS CD
> includes the Iomega driver, so it would recognize your ZIP or Jaz
> if you booted
> from the CD; or you could put a system onto the ZIP or Jaz and boot
> from that --
> just like you had a floppy.
>
> NOW having said that, I *completely* agree with your point about
> running the OS
> from ROM. But I still don't see the floppy as an issue. I'm sure
> one of us will
> be proved wrong sometime over the next 12 - 18 months. Of course,
> I'm betting it
> will be you...

USB is not Bootable. Given out movement towards micro-rom, I doubt it
ever will be. You never know.

I do sincerely doubt you'll ever see a Mac booting from Rom again
(the Classic did, I believe). NeXT's had a monolithic RomMonitor OS,
but only on black hardware. It was extremely robust, like Bios on
steroids. I don't see it coming to current Apple hardware.

Again, I could be wrong.

-mab

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