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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: KickStart 2.0 in RAM
Message-ID: <13306@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Jul 90 19:36:11 GMT
References: <421374@neabbs.UUCP> <13272@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2118@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2118@vela.acs.oakland.edu> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
>In article <13272@cbmvax.commodore.com> ken@cbmvax (Ken Farinsky - CATS) writes:
>>
>>2.0 will be available as a ROM upgrade later this year.  You will
...
>This wouldn't happen to be the doings of marketing trying to get the common-
>man to buy A3000's if they want to use 2.0, now would it??  What's so hard
>about putting 2.0 in a 16-bit ROM that it is going to take a few months??

	Remember that 2.0 on the A3000 is soft-loaded - i.e. not in rom.
Burning roms is expensive (especially big roms), and also you don't want to
have to change roms often (it's expensive for you, too).  Waiting for an A2000
(rom) version gives Commodore more time so we can be sure the roms released
will be as stable as possible.  A3000's can be upgraded easily until the rom
version is ready.

	I think you're over-reacting - the delay for 16-bit roms is not
a marketing ploy.  Keep calm, they're coming.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"