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From: horton@fortune.UUCP (Randy Horton)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re:Re: AmigaDOS not im ROM
Message-ID: <5498@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 14:16:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: fortune.5498
Posted: Tue Aug 27 14:16:17 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 10:43:40 EDT
References: <584@brl-tgr.ARPA> <16177@watmath.UUCP> <536@x.UUCP>
Reply-To: horton@ranhome.UUCP (Randy horton)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
Lines: 49
Summary: 

In article <536@x.UUCP> john@x.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
>> In article <584@brl-tgr.ARPA> LAVITSKY@RU-BLUE.ARPA (Eric) writes:
>> >	Yes, there is a 'Kickstart' disk that you must have on power
>> >up.....
>>
>> From pictures it seems the Amiga just has another 256K of DRAMs that the
>> OS is loaded into.  Who cares if it is "hardware locked"?  The Amiga OS
>>must be pretty buggy if the designers went to the trouble of write protecting
>>the OS memory. In an appliance computer such as the Amiga, you should *never*
>> have to reset the machine!

That is, if you only run canned software that is in itself 100% bug free..
A computer that never needs to be reset?  I guess that will be along about the
same time as the VAX/laptop :-)
>
>First, you must remember that occaisionally we mere mortals who program make
>mistakes. I would much rather have an OS bug *not* smash the OS than go ahead
>and smash it.  I would even be more ecstatic to be able to get a new revision
>of their OS by just changing Kickstart disks, rather than opening up the cheap
>plastic container (damaging those *&^%^*@# Phillips head screws in the
>process) and popping in new ROMS (bending pin 16 while I'm at it...).
>
>
Imagine that you bought a new model of computer, one that would fit your needs
perfectly.  Imagine then that you found out that the OS (in ROM, as you
wanted) has a bug which prevents you from using a certain peripheral/software
package which was what you really wanted to do.  You then find out that in the
six months since you bought the machine, the manufacturer has come out with
a new revision of the OS that fixes the problem.  If you are lucky, the
manufacturer has a program to upgrade the machines with the old ROMs,
otherwise you can buy a new machine, or keep the one you bought which does not
do what you want.  What do you think of kickstart disks now?  This happened
to me, and I had to buy a new machine.  I am going to buy an Amiga, and I am
sure glad they are putting the OS in RAM.  Any OS this sophisiticated will no
doubt be improved in time.  I want to be able to upgrade, not replace.

>
>Three cheers and a bunny for the Amiga developers!
>
More cheers, and please hurry up and get it in the stores.

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