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From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again
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In article <1991Apr9.193839.14020@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	Certainly expandability to a computer won't be the main
>selling point, but it does give CDTV a base of users you won't
>otherwise find. Just plug in a disk drive and a keyboard and you
>can run anything you can run on an Amiga 500. For those people
>the CD can be a supplement. 

   You can, at least, run anything on the CDTV that you can run on 
an Amiga 500 with AmigaOS 1.3.

   This brings up an interesting question.  The CDTV apparently does 
not use the actual 1.3 ROMs, but modified 1.3 ROMs with the extra code
to support the CD-ROM drive.  If this is true, how could one go about
upgrading the CDTV to AmigaOS 2.0?

   The ROMs for 2.0 might not include the extra code that is in the
CDTV ROMs, and thus putting the 2.0 ROMs straight into a CDTV might
either cause it to not work at all or cause the CD-ROM drive to be
inaccessible.  

>	-- Ethan
>
>Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
>A: None. It's a hardware problem.

                       
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