Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sdrc!cinnet!kilian From: kilian@cinnet.com (Kilian Jacob) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Kickstart 2.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr30.230120.20642@cinnet.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 23:01:20 GMT References: <21070@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Cincinnati Network, Cinti. OH Lines: 23 From article <21070@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna): > > Of course, the next public release will be even better (more bugs > fixed, more compatibility). > Well, I'm waiting for the first *public* release of KS 2.0. > Remember that on the A3000, you can update your Kickstart with a new > disk. The other machines will require ROMs. It's a perfectly acceptable > position to say that 2.01 and 2.02 were ready for public release on > disk, but not yet ready for the permanence that ROM provides. > If Commodore's point not to release KS2.0 for all Amigas is simply because 2.0 isn't ready to be ROMed, why can't I just go to my dealer and buy a disk version of 2.0? Not only the A3000 has a MMU to relocate the ROM addresses into FAST RAM. Even if one doesn't have a MMU, there are ways to run 2.0 on a machine (that has enough FAST RAM). -- /