Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: WorkBench 2.0 Message-ID: <20627@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 15 Apr 91 05:20:46 GMT References: <1991Apr10.164331.15240@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <47011@ut-emx.uucp> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 25 In article <47011@ut-emx.uucp> lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) writes: >Bzzzzt! Although your answer is partially correct, you do not win the >prize. All A2000's and A500's (as far as I know) have 512K ROMs in them >already, it is just that only 256K of the space is used. Bzzzzt! I'm afraid you don't quite win the prize either. A2000's and A500's have sockets that handle 512K roms, but the 1.3 roms are only 256K. Also note that a fair number of A500's don't have the address lines in the same spot as current roms/eproms usually do - they weren't available at the design time and someone had to guess, I think. There are several solutions for this: a tiny daughterboard that swaps the lines, a custom-bonded rom, etc. When ROMs are ready, one of the solutions will be chosen. A2000's and relatively new A500's (I don't know the rev) don't have this problem. I guess I'm ineligible for the prize, since I work for C=. Oh well. I guess I won't buy that racecar this spring... ;-) -- 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") ;-)