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From: jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2.0 ROMs
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Date: 26 Jun 91 05:07:09 GMT
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>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."

The only advantages I can see to going to ROM are that you free up half a meg
of RAM and half a meg of hard drive space. The only disadvantage I can see
is that it makes it difficult to update to later versions.

Personally, I will be sticking with Kickstart on the hard drive even if
(when ? :-) the ROMs come out.

Another interesting thing (that I don't know if it has been mentioned) is
that 3000s do actually have an early (very early) version of 2.0 in ROM
already. Try deleting (or renaming) the kickfile on the hard drive and
cold booting.

Jon
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