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From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A590 Controller
Summary: It's nifty
Message-ID: <2095@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 90 10:40:52 GMT
References: <30001@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <kLBBP4w163w@valnet>
Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Peter Breznay)
Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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In article <kLBBP4w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:
>BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes:
>The A590 is basically the same hardware as an A2091. Ferinstance:

Identical custom chips and such.  It's effectively the same product. 

>3) The ROMs on both have to be replaced if you want many programs to run.

Untrue.  I had VERY MINOR problems before I applied the FFS version number
fix, and none whatsoever since, and I checked and found that I have the 4.?
ROMs rather than the 6.? ROMs which my local store wants to charge me $110 
for... too much to pay to fix bugs I'm not experiencing, to say the least.

So far as I can tell, the A-590 is the only true DMA controller for the 500,
and in any case is unquestionably the best despite the dismal HD mechanism
shipped with it.  

And with a little luck I may soon have a Syquest to hook up to it at last...

.                           <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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