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From: CIS@S41.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 ROMS?
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Date: 19 Jul 89 16:18:00 GMT
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/* Written  8:39 am  Jul 19, 1989 by jms@tardis.UUCP in S41:comp.sys.amiga */
>well-written programs will not break under the new version of AmigaDOS.

>There are two related questions that remain unanswered:
>1) Will any of the new programs be completely unusable if you boot a 1.4
>   floppy on a system with the 1.2 or 1.3 ROMs?  (I expect them to at least
>   say "Sorry, you must Kickstart 1.4" and not guru.)

I would say that the answer to this one is a definitive YES.  There is going
to be a lot of stuff migrating to the ROM that is currently living on the disks.

>2) Will the ROM be in the stores at the same time as the disks?  (Because of
>   warrentee concerns, I don't expect the ROM to be in the box with the disks.)

I dunno. I surely hope so, but there is no telling what is going to go on with
the Amiga distribution channels.  I think that they'll be just as good as the
ones that they have now, which means that you'll have to wait for the kickstart
ROMs for a while :-(

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