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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: KickStart disks vs. ROM kernel
Message-ID: <340@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 02:10:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.340
Posted: Thu Jun  5 02:10:07 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 05:45:39 EDT
References: <18@uw-atm.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: KickStart ROM

In article <18@uw-atm.UUCP> james@uw-atm.UUCP (James M Synge) writes:
[...]
>  I would like to suggest a different solution: EEPROMs (Electrically
>Erasable, Programmable Read Only Memory).  These would have the advantage of
>high speed start (no more waiting for those blasted KickStart disks to be
>read), along with the flexibility to make updates.
>
>  I am not sure of the cost of such system, and clearly it wouldn't do me much
>good with my current machine, but on future machines it could be quite an
>improvement.
>-- James M Synge      UUCP: uw-beaver!uw-june!james

In concept the is a great idea, however these devices have not reached a
point where this would be practical.  In fact, it might cost more than the
current RAM/kickstart arrangement.

Understand that the entire kickstart image could be stored in one relatively
cheap ROM, or a pair more expensive EPROMs, while you would need maybe 16
or 32 expensive EEPROMS to do the trick.  Maybe in a few years, but not yet...
--
George Robbins - now working with,      uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing      arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department       fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)