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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: 2.0 for non-3000's
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.172230.1987@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 21 Jun 91 17:22:30 GMT
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In article <91172.104244GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes:
>>        The speed difference between ROM and FAST RAM is not great enough
>>to justify having to load kickstart each time the blasted thing crashes,
>>This of course, depends on how you use your Amiga. The way I use it - it's
>>a royal pain in the ass!
>
>On the Amiga 3000 it is very rare to have a crash that removes the kickstart
>from memory. The kickstart loaded in ram is protected with the MMU. You
>can not simply write there. To overwrite this memory you will have to trash
>the mmu tables and these are not so big.

	Ok, I will clarify. This wouldn't really apply to A3000s, because
they have an MMU to protect kickstart. But this would apply to older systems
that didn't have the luxury of an MMU (like moi). So far I've only received
rebuttals from A3000 owners. How about comments from owners of more lowly
models? 

>Also the loading of the kickstart on a 3000 takes only about 2 seconds.
>Hardly noticable in my opinion.

	The whole Amiga community is NOT just made up of A3000s! Back in my
A1000 days, all I had were floppy drives. The initial loading of the os
seemed like a drawn out process. Imagine compounding that with the time
required to load a kickstart image. Furthermore, the WorkBench disk is usu-
ally too full to accomodate a kickstart image as well. What do you suggest
for them? A multidisk set?

-jeff