Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!solo.csci.unt.edu!vaxb.acs.unt.edu!news From: wright@etsuv2.etsu.edu (BRIAN WRIGHT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Kickstart 2.0 Message-ID: <1991May1.200820.46421@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> Date: 2 May 91 00:55:38 GMT References: <21070@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: wright%etsuvax2@ricevm1.rice.edu Organization: East Texas State University Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: etsuv2.etsu.edu In article <1991Apr30.230120.20642@cinnet.com>, kilian@cinnet.com (Kilian Jacob) writes... >From article <21070@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna): >> 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). Yes, there are ways to run 2.0 on a machine without an MMU, but not with very much stability. One wild program and your Kickstart is trashed. Not a good situation. I can see why Commodore hasn't released it in that format. There would be more complaints than good coming from that. I will agree that there is a point to which Commodore is going to have to say, "2.0 is finished, all revisions after this date will go towards x.x OS." That date should hopefully be soon. I'm know everyone is tired of waiting, but think of the stability of the OS. :-) >-- / >-- >Kilian Jacob - Cincinnati, Ohio - VOICE: (513)-489-1891 >UUCP: kilian@cinnet.com or {uceng.uc.edu, ukma!spca6, uunet!sdrc}!cinnet!kilian -------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wright wright%etsuvax2@ricevm1.rice.edu or wright@etsuvax2.bitnet -------------------------------------------------------------- Standard Disclaimer... not my words and all that jazz.