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To: BillHoo who wrote (13528)	5/12/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Adam Nash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Re: ROMs I don't think that the move away from ROMs indicates a revisiting of the license issue. The OS seems still dependent on Open Firmware for booting, and may become more so. Frankly, I think the truth is that the only decisions we can count on are the announced ones. Mac OS X will be on PPC. It will be Open Firmware based. It will support a dynamic driver model (for USB/Firewire). Mac OS X will be designed for Apps written with Carbon. I do not think we should assume that just because Yellow Box will still be on Mac OS X that it represents "the API of the future". It just may be that the Yellow Box becomes the technology Apple uses to implement the Mac OS going forward. Neat Tidbit from WWDC today: USB allows hot-plugging of things onto the bus. The driver model for USB allows for drivers to be loaded when a device is plugged in, and unloaded when the device is unplugged. Well, Apple is going to store all known USB Mac drivers on their website, so that if the system discovers that it doesn't have the driver, it will look on Apple's site for it, and download it, and use it, all automagically. Cool.