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From: cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 2.0 ROMs
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.225531.13723@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 22:55:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.223220.19325@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Jun21.165031.5887@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> <1991Jun24.182626.11924@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Jun24.182626.11924@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>	Well, maybe not this for you A3000 owners. I already posted a dis-
>claimer of this nature - didn't you bother to read it? And wakeup and smell
>the coffee. The amiga community does not revolve around the A3000! The A500,
>A1000, and A2000 have been around a lot longer and are a hell of lot cheaper!

Sigh.  I was the original poster of the message you replied to,
asking whether what the wins and losses to going to ROM, other than
the small memory gain.  My followup was a clarification of my
question, as I hadn't noticed the subject line before -- not a random
comment out of the blue -- I suppose you interpreted as some sort of
attack, though I don't know how.  I'm relatively new to the Amiga (I
had an A500 several months before "powering up") and was asking for
information *for me*, not looking for flames.  Pardon me that I happen
to have an A3000 and want to learn more about it. 

Don't get so damned defensive, and think before you flame.

>	Oh yeah... It was my understanding that on A3000's (or system's equip-
>ped with an MMU), ROM was moved into 32 bit memory. If that's the case, then
>the following is unfounded. 

Thank you.  That's answering part of my question, except that the
entire A3000, if I understand it properly, has a 32 bit address bus.

Does anybody else have any information on this?  The original question
was: "What are the wins and losses of not getting Kickstart 2.0 on
ROM?"   I later clarified, "for an A3000 owner with 6 megs and a
harddrive." 
-- 
Todd L. Masco - CMU Physics   | "Free speech is the right to shout
cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu |   'theatre' in a crowded fire."