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From: scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
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Subject: Re: Amiga OS 2.0 on an A500
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Date: 30 Apr 90 12:34:48 GMT
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>   Someone mentioned here that Commodore is not going to offer an OS2.0
>upgrade for the Amiga 500 because OS 2.0 requires at least 1M and a
>hard disk.

Bill> That someone was me, and I received pointed mail from Ken Farinsky at CATS,
Bill> telling me that I'd received bad information.  I was depending on what >one<
Bill> rep at the Palladium said, and he apparently wasn't as well-informed as I
Bill> thought.  The new OS will not >require< a hard drive, and it will run on a
Bill> machine with less than a meg of chip ram.  Next time, I'll look for
Bill> corroboration before I open my mouth...<grin>

OK, if AmigaDOS 2.0 does NOT require more than 1MB of chip ram (ie: it
will work with 512KB), is there a technical reason why v2.0 can't run on
an A1000? The only one I can think of is that the minimum amount of the
kernel that must be in kickstart exceeds the 256KB KS memory, since not
enough of the libraries could be put on disk. Since I have 2MB of fast ram
and a hard disk, is there anyway I can load v2.0?

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