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From: kgschlueter@watrose.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: hardware 'upgrades'
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 12:32:26 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 12:32:26 1987
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Reply-To: kgschlueter@watrose.UUCP (Kevin Schlueter)
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(poster mentions that Commodore will not be offering ROM upgrades to early
amiga owners as evidence that Atari isn't the only one)

I'm afraid that you are misrepresenting the facts here.  You seem to be
implying that early Amiga owners are stuck with buggy ROMS, which will
not be ugraded by Commodore.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is that the early Amigas had only minimal ROMS -- just enough
to load the KickStart disk into memory.  Two new versions of the KickStart
disk have been released, fixing most of the bugs in the Amiga's system
software.  What Commodore might be saying (and I haven't heard this)
is that they will not offer to put the system software in ROM in the early
Amigas -- that is owners of early Amigas will have to continue to use
the KickStart disk or find a third party to get the ROMS (such a third
party does exist).

I'm sorry if I misunderstood what you were saying, but I think I probably
wasn't the only one.