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From: ugevan@sunybcs.uucp (Evan Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Generation
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Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 12:16:34 EST
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Reply-To: ugevan@joey.UUCP (Evan Kahn)
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Summary: My $.02


	I was at a local C-A dealer yesterday and spoke to an official rep from
Commodore.  Specifically, I wanted to know when KS 1.3 would be available and
found out thatit isn't schedualed for release until late next quarter (March).
At any rate we got to talking and I mentioned to him that I was in support of
bootable firmware as opposed to it being in ROM.  He concurred and informed me
that there is speculation that future Amigas may have EEPROMS to hold KS.
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	Apparently, a reason why KS was put into ROM was to quell fears of
software producers, after all, why should they produce a package for an OS that
is rather variable; they will forever be providing patches.  But this solution
is so exciting because the intention here is that an old program need only re-
boot the old version of KS and run the application that was released under it.
One could conceivably partition a hard disk into sections for each new version
of KS.  An advanced OS could be smart enough to load the particular version of
KS for a particular application; Or you could just get latest releases and not
worry about reloading the firmware each time you run an application.

	Do you guys out there think that such an EEPROM card could be made for
the 2000 ?

								Evan.