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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Convenient Kickstart
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Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 14:36:47 EDT
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> Let it be known that I cast my vote for KEEPING the Kickstart to WCS
> concept.  This provides for a LOT of useful features that are not possible
> (or at least convenient) otherwise. ...

Is it possible to simply provide SOCKETS for the ROM (where the Kickstart
RAM now plugs in?) and then sell the machine with the ROMs and offer the
Kickstart RAM as an accessory that plugs into the ROM socket?  At least
that way a developer can have either environment with only the inconvenience
of having to swap the parts; or better yet, provide sockets on the piggy-back
Kickstart RAM for the ROM chips, and have a board mounted slide switch to
select what is wanted - ROM or Kickstart RAM WCS.  The Byte article from
last year just shows the ROM pads (no sockets).  Somewhere else I thought
I saw a picture that showed the Kickstart RAM, a PC board that covers over
the ROM sockets, but I can't now remember where...

								Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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