Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!johnhlee
From: johnhlee@viola.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WB2.0 for non-A3000
Message-ID: <51472@cornell.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 91 17:08:04 GMT
References: <1222@stca77.stc.oz>
Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP
Reply-To: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
Lines: 33
Summary:
Followup-To:

In article <1222@stca77.stc.oz> peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy) writes:
>There has been a lot of smoke and heat generated in the net regarding the
>(lack of) WB2.0 for machines other than the A3000.  One question I haven't
>seen asked (or answered) is why can't the existing WB2.0 be used on the
>A500/A1000/A2000?
>
>The only problems I can think of are:
>Commodore Marketing - this is the most likely.
>
>Contains 68030 specific code - Given that AmigaDOS has always supported
[...]
>WB2.0 assumes the A3000 ECS chipset - I understood that the new chips were
[...]

I believe that it has been stated publicly (by Commodore personnel and
others, but not officially) that WB2.0 does not contain 68030/020-specific
code, does not it require the ECS chipset, and in fact *will* run on A500s
and A2000s.  A stock A1000 cannot run release WB2.0 because the motherboard
does not support the new 512K ROMs.  Developers *are* currently beta-testing
WB2.0 on A500s, A1000s, A2000s, and A3000s because Kickstart is loaded into
RAM and executed from there.

So why is WB2.0 not out for A500s, A1000s, and A3000s?  Because it has
not completed beta-testing yet, and Commodore will not make a vapor-ware
announcement.  Current A3000 owners have a *pre-release* version of WB2.0.  

Patience can be difficult (for me, most definitely), but we all must wait
a bit more.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deadly rumors spread unchecked!  Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation.
	John Lee		Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu
The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.