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MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

Hacker News | Oct 25, 2026 | classichasclass

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While then-CTO Ellen Hancock claimed in 1997 a ROM swap would enable the ANS to boot Mac OS again and Windows NT, these ROMs were believed to be vapourware until a former Apple employee presented a working dump of both the preproduction ROM and the later ANS Mac OS ROM. The Code Fragment Manager, also in the Power Mac ROM, then runs code from any PCI card expansion ROMs and drivers in the Mac ROM itself. The ANS was never officially supported with Mac OS, so a proper Mac OS driver was never needed.

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