At 11:33 -0500 on 21/12/02, Scott Holder wrote:

>At 07:46 AM 12/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>What is A/ROSE for? No Mac OS installer I have encountered has ever given a
>>description of if besides "Provides support for certain NuBus cards."
><snip>
>
>There is/was a certain Token Ring nubus card that requred some special

The Apple-branded one, IIRC.

>Real-Time handling by the OS. I seem to recall it had a complete 68000

Yep.  Mac Token Ring cards often had 68HC000s on them.  Not sure why all the
computational power was required but whatever.  Not that anyone really uses it
any more ;)
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