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From: billsey@nesbbx.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 4 Jun 91 21:10:01 GMT
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In article <5202@dirac.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,

	Actually, no. When the 3000 came out, and now, it had a set of special
boot ROMs (or EPROMs) that loads a kickstart off of disk. Just like the 1000
does. The difference is, it loads that kickstart into system memory, then uses
the MMU to map it to a ROM location. That means you use up some of your system
memory whenever you're running. (256K for 1.3, 512K for 2.0) That will go away
with the release of real 2.0 ROMs, freeing up the 512K for applications to use.

> 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

	The ECS chips have been available to dealers as replacement parts since
shortly after the release of the 3000. These are usable in any Amiga, although
with a 1000 you'll need something like the Rejuvenator for the Fat Agnus. The
problem is that many of the new modes for Denise pretty much need 2.0 to be
used. For that, we need a ROM release.

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