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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Convenient Kickstart
Message-ID: <538@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 14:30:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 11 14:30:25 1986
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Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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From reading all this discussion, I am beginning to think that I do
not understand something correctly.  My understanding is that the Rom
Kernel is not the OS.  It is the equivalent to the ROM Bios in the IBM
PC type of dinosaurs.  It is also my understanding that the OS is on
the workbench disk, where it always will be ROM or no ROM.  It is also
my understanding that even if the Kickstart were placed in ROM that it
does not prevent future modifications to these routines.  They are all
vectored in a clean way so that upgrading it would require only enough
RAM to hold the new routines once loaded from disk.  So what's the hassle?
Even if you upgrade half the kernel, it would still be twice as fast as
kickstarting from diskette all the time now.  I am sure that someone will
correct me out there.  Rom kernel consists of: Exec, Graphics, Layers,
and some devices.  The OS consists of AmigaDos, and its related stuff.
After all, what is installed by the INSTALL program?