Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1
From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXTWorld
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.225433.22587@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 22:54:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.111453.6133@cc.helsinki.fi> <5733@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1991Apr30.171321.2117@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News)
Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 29
Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

In article <1991Apr30.171321.2117@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>  You can get a Toaster for your a3000 right now! Hell, the Toaster started
>shipping the same month the a3000 did. Lots of people use the Toaster with
>the a3000. 

	Sure, if you replace the Denise chip with the old non-ECS
Denise AND if you leave the cover off. Then it works fine. I
don't know too many people willing to do that only to avoid
getting a 2000 system.
>
>  As for 2.0 roms, you really don't need them for any a3000. Why? every
>a3000 comes with a hard drive. It takes 5 seconds to load the kickstart,
>and you only have to do it once a day. There are very few people who will
>get roms for their a3000 just to save five seconds a day.
>
	And if you can also spare the 512K of RAM that the
KickStart takes up once it's copied into RAM.

>-- 
>    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
>           Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)
>
>                   Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.


	-- Ethan

"Brain! Brain! What is Brain?"