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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UPGRADING TO 2.0
Message-ID: <2543@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 13:09:58 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:

|[stuff deleted about "constantly changing" system software and disk-based OS]

|No thanks.  Let's see, WB 1.3 came out in October '88, and 2.0 is coming out
|in September '90... Constantly??  Nuh uh.  That's actually pretty slow, and
|considering the reasonable cost (it's $45 for the 1.3 chip), I'd MUCH rather
|replace a ROM occaisionally than have to go through a half-dozen floppies
|before I could use the machine...  Even with the hard drive, I'm too
|impatient to wait for the OS to load.

What would be nice would be EEPROMS :-). You would load kickstart off of
floppy into the EEPROMS, and it would remain their until you needed to load
in an old kickstart for compatibility or upgrade to a new version.

With EEPROMs you get the all the advantages of kickstart on a disk and in ROM.
Plus it makes the OS user upgradable, rather than having the typical user having
to take his machine in to get it upgraded. And CBM could just copy lots of disks
rather than having to burn a bunch of ROMs each time. 



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