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From: dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: Convenient Kickstart, selling the WCS as an accesory?
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Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 01:41:08 EDT
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	I don't think that's a good idea.  I once interfaced 2K of ram
in the character generator (ROM) socket of my aging Pet 2001.  Since
ROM sockets generally:
	
	(A) don't have a write line (wasn't a problem w/ the 6502)
	(B) assume static memory (e.g. no timing constraints or refresh)
	(C) generally don't provide any timing anyway

	Doing a similar thing to the Amiga WCS probably isn't worth it's
weight in peanuts... you really don't gain all that much.  With my little
custom ram-character generator, I had to tap lines off the processor as
well as use all the lines available on the rom-socket...

	Either ROM based, or WCS based, but not both (though it's obvious
by now I'm all for keeping the current WCS scheme)

				-Matt "Gunsmoke?" Dillon
	
On 1.2 bug reports:  ok, I'll send them in as well as post them.