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From: d88-jwa@eufrat.nada.kth.se (<true_name> Jon Wtte </true_name> )
Subject: Re: SE rom
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In  ryanph@mrl.dsto.gov.au writes:

>There is no reason that Apple couldn't release software patches for older
>computers (there are lots of Mac Pluses, Classics and SEs that have been
>upgraded to 68020 and 68030 processors which should be perfectly able to deal
>with Color Quickdraw) - but they wont, and 3rd parties are having a difficult 

There is one reason: market size.

The market size for color quickdraw for accellerated plusses and
SEs (which don't go beyond 4 MB anyway) is just too small; the
extra cost would belike $1,000 and with that money, you can buy a
color classic instead.

Cheers,

					/ h+
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