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From: mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Three (dumb) questions
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Date: 21 Mar 91 00:34:15 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.174954.21646@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes:
>drichard@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (David Richards) writes:
>
>>First what does a person need to have
>>hardware-wise to upgrade to WorkBench 2.0. 
>
>It requires that CBM release the 2.0 roms for general consumption.
>Other than that, 2.0 will run in any amiga, with any versions of the
>custom chips. 2.0 roms are twice as big (logically and probably
>physically) and may not fit directly into an A500 or an A2000 without
>a little daughter board to hold them.

My dealer told me :) that A1000 users will *not* be able to use WB 2.0.
Is this likely:
 
a. Wrong
b. Because Kickstart 2.x will be distributed only on ROMs.
c. Because the Kickstart daugtherboard doesn't have enough DRAM to hold
   the larger Kickstart 2.x

Thanx, Scott
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