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From: will@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (William Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UPGRADING TO 2.0
Summary: A  Non-Volatile  Writeable  Control  Store
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.160837.19530@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 90 16:08:37 GMT
References: <218c0522931d26990e14@canremote.uucp>
Reply-To: will@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (William Chou)
Organization: Columbia University
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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.
>
>COMMODORE SHOULD HAVE LEFT KICK START ON DISK!
>---

	The original reason for moving Kickstart to ROM was cost.  ROM chips
  are much cheaper than RAM chips.

	But, now with newer versions of the system software constantly
  changing (2.0 and later 3.0 ...), wouldn't it be a good idea to return to
  the original Writeable Control Store?  Ram chips are cheap; so, wouldn't
  it be much more cost effective to introduce a 512k - 1meg  WCS in the new
  machines, with maybe non-volitile RAM, to handle old and new versions of the
  system.  All new versions can be placed on disk, allowing cheaper and thus,
  wider distribution.

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