Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000! Message-ID: <13183@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 12 Jul 90 21:17:43 GMT References: <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 34 In article <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> Karl-Gunnar Hultland writes: >I've finally gotten my hands on a 3000 (borrowed until my own arrives) >but I have some problems with it. Warning: If this is a preproduction (dealer-demo) model it will not have a release version of 2.0, it will have Beta 5 (probably). The release version is signifigantly better than Beta 5, in general. >1) Does it exist a utility to DISABLE that cache memory? > Some old (and not very well written) utilities just breaks > even under 1.3 on the 3000. The caches are on the CPU (same as the 2500/030). Use SetCPU, or the 2.0 command CPU. >2) Were can I get the NEW autodocs that should exist for 2.0 Contact your local developer support manager, or ESCO. >4) If I get an old kickdisk (i.e. 1.2) will it work? I doubt it, but I don't know. >5) The final question UNIX is said to exist for A2000 but > when will it be available for the 3000. > (that ROM socket with 1.3 should be great for a UNIX ROM) Unix has not been released, nor has any date been set. In any case, it's highly unlikely to be in ROM (Unix is not small). -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"