Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long) Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 91 17:59:45 GMT References: <1991Apr3.231414.23689@uvm.edu> <3KHASM9@xds13.ferranti.com> <20384@cbmvax.commodore.com> <20429@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 35 In article <20429@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: >In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>I would have preferred an official 1000 kickstart disk, though, if you don't >>mind a brief foray into fantasy mode... > > It's not technically impossible (though it still requires at least >256K of autoconfig ram, and a bunch of work on bryce's part). > >-- >Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. >{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup >Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. >Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system >is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." >(From "The Zen of Programming") ;-) Even though I don't use my A1000 much anymore (not w/ an A3000 on my desk), it seems to me that that is just making for unnecessary work. why not have an A1000 kickstart which kicks a dummy 1.3 OS which then does nothing more than load another 512K (2.0) off the floppy? As far as the user is concerned, it would LOOK the same (stick in a 2.0 kickstart and it goes), just take longer. The 512K could go into *normal* ram so it's contiguous. I guess you'd have to write off the WCS since, it seems, to leave it write-enabled also leaves the boot rom mapped. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA