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From: johnhlee@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Johnny H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Why put Kickstart on A3000 ROM? (was Re: 512K FastRam)
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Date: 4 Sep 90 21:22:56 GMT
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In article <1990Sep1.133213.6765@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc) writes:
[...]
>Kickstart uses up 512K of RAM on an A3000.  Why is this bad?  If you put
>Kickstart on ROM, you have to pay for 512KBytes worth of ROM/EPROM.  I'd
>much rather pay for an extra 512K of RAM!  The RAM costs less than the ROM,
>and has much faster access times (especially the SC RAM).  Remember that all
[...]

Just a little correction here...

ROM's have a high initial cost to make the initial masks, but the per-unit
costs are very low.  In the quantities that Commodore orders, ROM's are quite
a bit cheaper to use than RAMs.  Also, the ROMs are quite a bit faster than
RAMs.

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