[X4U] Couple questions on Apples move to Intel

[Robert Ameeti]

At 10:39 AM -0700, 6/7/05, James Jones wrote:

>Yes, they do. NewWorld Macs still have hardware-specific start-up 
>code in Boot ROM

Oh? What chip on the G4 motherboard is the ROM?

>, just as IBM-type PCs still have BIOS chips.
>
>On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:
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>>At 8:55 AM -0700, 6/7/05, James Jones wrote:
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>>>2) Macs will be Macs and other Intel-based PCs won't be. A Dell 
>>>PC, for example, won't have Mac ROMs, so it won't boot OS X 
>>>without modification.
>>
>>Macs don't use ROMs.

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