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From: johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Future of 500 (was help on installing 1meg agnus)
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Date: 24 Oct 90 15:11:46 GMT
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In article <1990Oct22.213836.26854@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) writes:
>   If one can run 2.0 in a non-MMU setup with the penalty of loosing 512K of 
                            ^^^^^^^
> RAM. Why not put out a version like that instead of a ROM version for 500's?
> The ROM sockets for a 2000 and a 500 are not that much different, and there 
> are ALOT of 2000's out there that do not have a Fat Agnus in them.

As far as I understand it, a RAM-based Kickstart you're thinking of *requires*
an MMU to map the 2.0 Kickstart in RAM over the 1.3 Kickstart in ROM.  You
can't run the non-ROM 2.0 Kickstart in a non-MMU A2000 either.

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