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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1991 20:07:56 GMT

In article <5202@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> murphy@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy) writes:
>In article <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>>I would give it a little more time.  The Toaster just came out.  2.0 and
>>the ECS is about to come out.  And I'll bet it cost a lot of money to get
>
>I just don't get it.  I remember a year ago or so when the A3000 came out.
>Didn't it have both 2.0 and 1.3 ROMS?  Although 2.0 ROMs weren't finalized,
>Why has it taken C= a year to produce those chips for retrofit into A2000s and
>A500s?  Will the entire ECS be available for <A3000 machines?  You would
>think that C= would get on the ball.  This is almost getting to be as bad 
>as Steven Jobs' NeXT initial announcement.
>
>
	Your memory is way off. There are no ROMs in the A3000.
1.3 and 2.0 are loaded off of the hard drive and run using some
magic. The reason is that, as each new bug fix comes in, the OS
can be easily updated. 2.0 is being continually updated. When
they stop updating it is when you'll see the ROMs. What's the
point of coming out with ROMs now that need to be changed in 4
months?

>Bill Murphy
>murphy@physics.purdue.edu
>
	-- Ethan

Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
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