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From: d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga OS 2.0 on an A500
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Date: 4 May 90 11:55:13 GMT
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sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:

>Boy! Chuck, this sure is a negative sounding posting for you. There is one
>major difference between the 500 and the 2000 that will make it more difficult
>to upgrade the 500 to 2.0:

>Unless the 2.0 operating system works with only 512K CHIP RAM, (in which case,
>my original paragraph above is wrong, so ignore it :-), CBM will have to
>start shipping 500's with 1 meg in order to give 500 owners 2.0. Not too
>likely unless mem prices fall some more. I remember reading that there is
>some room on the motherboard for an additional 512K though.

Yes, John, I believe you're wrong. If my memory isn't completely worthless,
I saw an article just a couple of days ago where someone from C= said that
2.0 will run on an A500 and does *not* need harddisk, ECS, 2 M fast ram or
1 M chip. I.e. it will run with 512 K chip mem. On the other hand it isn't very
difficult to install the additional 512K if the New Agnus is in place.

Mike


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