Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!sgt From: sgt@alice.UucP (Steve Tell) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Convenient Kickstart Message-ID: <5624@alice.uUCp> Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 21:35:37 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.5624 Posted: Thu Jun 12 21:35:37 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Jun-86 16:40:47 EDT References: <1241@well.UUCP> <1247@well.UUCP>, <2093@hao.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 24 >>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.... If the folks at C-A feel that there would be too small a marked to justify offering the option, *Please* at least give us sockets for the roms, and the details on how to make a WCS board. That way, if a need arises, someone will make them. I want to see C-A do as well as they can with the machine, but please close the door on the possiblilty of other operating systems in wcs. Steve Tell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (... is not responsible for any of these opinions) -- Steve Tell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (... is not responsible for any of these opinions)