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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UPGRADING TO 2.0
Message-ID: <13147@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 16:18:43 GMT
References: <218c0522931d26990e14@canremote.uucp>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <218c0522931d26990e14@canremote.uucp> iain.bennett@canremote.uucp (IAIN BENNETT) writes:
>TO me, it's, was Commodore right in changing Kickstart to a chip?  Or
>should she have left it on disk.  I feel it should have been left on a
>disk!  I mean Commdore is just getting money by changing all of the
>chips, and that is darned expensive.

The majority of Amiga computers (all Amiga 2000s, 500s, and 3000s) have
their kickstart in ROMs.  Only the Amiga 1000 was designed to load its
Kickstart off disk.

Some of your confusion may stem from the fact that many people upgraded
to Workbench 1.3 (disk) but kept their Kickstart 1.2 (ROM).  Kickstart 1.3
only added the ability to autoboot off a hard drive, so if you had no hard
disk, Kickstart 1.2 was fine.  There have been major changes in 2.0,
and when you upgrade, you need both the Kickstart ROM and the Workbench disk.

     Peter
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