http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1754.msg8607#msg8607back to what i was saying..
i just checked my "mac os rom" on my powermac g3 B&W 450mhz..
the one i always say feels so very fast for its cpu..
and its running mac os rom 8.9.1!!!!!!
my question now is.. is this a special version rom for the B&W?
or is this the "default rom" from a retail mac os 9 install?so this goes back to the theory that each of these rom files are specifically tuned
for a specific machine.. and like BT said.. each of these operating systems were tuned
uniquely for each unique machine... the same way "CUBASE" is referred to as the same program
for mac + pc and from version to version are very very different "under the hood"
some things were probably not meant to be tinkered with.. like changing of rom files..
which is something that aspiring hacker-types would mess around with..
but perhaps these people overwriting rom files to get a later version number
are doing something very wrong..
and breaking the uniquely fine tuned rom for that unique machine
its too bad we have no real representatives or programmers from the os 9 team here now to tel us for sure;(
but the rom is software firmware... which gets installed by the installer
but if the installers are all specific to each type of g4.. then there must be specific rom files + os
which were "intended for" + "extensively tested" with that specific machine