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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: KickStart disks vs. ROM kernel
Message-ID: <341@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 11:45:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.341
Posted: Thu Jun  5 11:45:21 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 06:02:56 EDT
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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> Keywords: KickStart ROM
>
>
>   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).
>
>   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. ...
>
>
> -- James M Synge      UUCP: uw-beaver!uw-june!james

Sure sounds like a nice idea.  Only problem is that EEPROMs these days are
several times more expensive than Static RAM, which is more expensive than
Dynamic RAM, which is more expensive than ROM, etc.
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