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From: perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Some questions
Keywords: OS 2.0
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Date: 31 Jul 90 20:02:31 GMT
References: <428@spader.UUCP> <139323@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1705@nyx.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)

In article <1705@nyx.UUCP>, bscott@nyx (Ben Scott) writes:
 (regarding separate releases of 2.0 for the 2000 and 500)

>  And so far as I have been told, even if they TRIED, there is
>no reliable way to tell a 500 from a 2000 from software.  

>Comments?  Speculation?  Hints?  Gossip?  Recipes?  News?  Tall tales? 

This is just speculation, but the big difference between an unexpanded
500 and a 2000 is that the 2000 has a full megabyte of memory, while
the 500 doesn't.  My guess is that the 2000 release will work
on a 1 MB 500, but not (or not too well) on a 1/2 meg one.

-don perley
perley@trub.crd.ge.com