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From: bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A3000 and WB2.0 --- HELP!!!
Keywords: a3000,wb2.0,ram,memory,bru
Message-ID: <14541@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 17:37:01 GMT
References: <1788@nemesis.stsci.edu> <1990Sep18.190542.25968@agora.uucp> <1990Sep19.000307.4728@uokmax.uucp> <14538@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Baker)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <14538@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> In article <1990Sep19.000307.4728@uokmax.uucp> drtiller@uokmax.uucp (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) writes:
> >For all of you 3000 owners who will want to maintain the ability to boot into
> >1.3, be sure to retain a copy of the 512K 1.3.2 kickstart for use with
> >SetCPU.  The Kickstart used in the 500,1000 and 2000 machines IS NOT the same
> >as that used in the 3000.  
> 
> That's certainly true.
> 
> >A special version had to be hacked for the 3000 to run 1.3.  
> 
> Actually, that's not the reason.  Plain old 256K 1.3 works just fine on an
> A3000, but it doesn't know anything about the 3000's hard disk or Fast memory.
> So the special version adds in modules to manages these items.


   along with something for the Real Time Clock which is also different.

> -- 
> Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>    {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>       Get that coffee outta my face, put a Margarita in its place!