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From: rj@amiga.UUCP (Robert J. Mical)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: KickStart disks vs. ROM kernel
Message-ID: <1259@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 02:43:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1259
Posted: Thu Jun  5 02:43:08 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 00:20:35 EDT
References: <18@uw-atm.UUCP>
Reply-To: rj@amiga.UUCP (Robert J. Mical)
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Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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Keywords: KickStart ROM

In article <18@uw-atm.UUCP> james@uw-atm.UUCP (James M Synge) writes:
>
>  There has been some debate about whether the kernel should remain on the
>current KickStart disk, or be placed in ROM (as the name ROM Kernel implies).
>
>-- James M Synge      UUCP: uw-beaver!uw-june!james

As a point of interest, even if Commodore ends up putting the ROM Kernel
system code in ROM, you will still be able to put a Kickstart disk in
the internal drive and have that code be loaded as the system code.
This allows further releases (as well as custom releases) of the Kickstart
even after the Amiga goes to ROM.  

Presumably, this will work with machines that have more than 512K of RAM,
since that 256K of Kickstart has to fit in somewhere.  I understand that
the Kickstart code was once upon a time successfully loaded into the
special RAM cache of the 68020 board that's seen glory days in the Amiga.
Now *that* is cool.

RJ >:-{)*


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