What advantages does the ROM 3 GS offer vs. the ROM-01 GS?
The ROM 3 Apple IIgs offers many minor enhancements vs. the ROM-01 which make the machine more functional and pleasant to use: – You get a machine that is about 5-10% faster for GUI, floppy disk loading and RAM Disk operations (due to updated smartport firmware and System 5 tools being in ROM). – A machine that is more flexible when working with AppleTalk and slots (you don’t have to give up an extra slot and you can stick a card in slot 4 and still use the mouse in GS/OS). – A nicer text Control Panel that lets you resize RAM Disk with a warm-boot and a cleaner way to size it too (no min/max size junk). Also a ‘Mouse’ menu and other existing things cleaned up and made better. – A just over 1 megabyte of RAM built-in to start off with; so, you can have 5 MB of DMA compatible memory in total. – The MB0 signal provided in slots 1 through 6, so you can stick in a Video Overlay Card _and_ Second Sight in together, and not worry about having to reserve slot 3. – Hardware shadowing of text p
