Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!nj From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Letter to Commodore Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 16:33:22 GMT References: <177458@netw23.uucp> <15543@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: nobody@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Postcarcinogenic Bliss, Inc. Lines: 39 In-reply-to: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 20 Jun 91 06:00:33 GMT In article <15543@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: 1) The A1000 doesn't have anyway of protecting this memory from being written over (first 512K of a 2MB expansion board), so when your programs go astray they not only trash AmigaDOS they trash the "ROM" image as well. To reboot requires you to boot into 1.3, then load 2.0 into memory, and then reboot into 2.0. From power on that is four boot disks, Actually, you could get away with three boot disks (just have a minimal 1.3 WB disk and put the kickstart image on that one); that would still require two disks on every kickstart-invalidating crash. (Since ZKICK preserves the image across ordinary reboots, you would only have to do the two-disk reboot if a program gurus really badly. I've only rarely been kicked back into 1.3.) If you have a hard disk, then it's really easy to set things up so you have a two-disk cold boot--a 1.3 Kickstart, then a minimal 2.0 boot disk that has both the kickit file and a small 2.0 startup that transfers you to the hard disk startup (this assumes a non-autobootable hard disk). 2) If they stuck 2.0 in the internal 512K you wouldn't have any RAM for applications so you have to have a 2MB ram board attached to your A1000. Do You? Do you know what the percentage of A1000s is that has more than 512K of RAM? It is about 3,000 machines. Er, that's not a percentage. Heh. Considering how few A1000s there are, this might not be such a small number. > The current Amigas are wonderful, but there is insufficient > incentive for me to upgrade. 2.0 is an incentive. Don't upgrade and you can't run 2.0. It's too early to make this statement. nj