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The physical ROM chip is a certain size. If you have 50kB left over, it doesn't matter if those bits are zeros or an easter egg.

• dylan604 1y ago
  and using 50K on someone's harddrive is a mortal sin? it's 50K. nobody will ever notice
  • pavlov 1y ago
    This was back when people still used 1.44M floppies to boot in an emergency.
    • duskwuff 1y ago
      Not on a G3. These systems shipped with Mac OS 8; the System suitcase was over 6 MB alone. Apple stopped shipping systems with internal floppy drives altogether a few years later, with the iMac and blue-and-white G3.
      • classichasclass 1y ago
        You could absolutely boot a stripped-down Mac OS 8 on a floppy, including the beige G3. Apple even provided them ("Disk Tools").
        • kalleboo 1y ago
          Apple even still hosts a download of the Disk Tools floppy for MacOS 8.1! https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Sof...
        • elliotnunn 1y ago
          Fascinatingly, the System file on the Disk Tools 8.1 floppy is actually a build of System 7, with HFS+ support grafted on. https://github.com/elliotnunn/HFSPlusBackport/blob/master/resreport.txt https://github.com/elliotnunn/HFSPlusBackport/blob/master/re...
    • dylan604 1y ago
      didn't OS 8 come on a CD? I installed it from disc in my DVD drive. not sure how old you think the G3 is, but it's not as old as installing from floppy. just barely