Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: How much can you do without new ROMs (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <4535@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 00:39:30 GMT
References: <34268R38@PSUVM> <42864@sun.uucp> <5070@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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In article <5070@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>I read on BIX that 1.3 was going to be 1.2 with NO bug fixes,
>just autoboot support.  Doesn't that mean new ROMs?

Amazing Computing mentions that a new graphics.library could support new,
more powerful hardware by supplanting the rom version with a disk-resident
one. I wonder, how much could you change via this method?

Dos.library (an ARP version, such as Bill Hawes is supposed to be working on)?
The "dream Workbench"? FFS?

John (trying to fit 8 megs of dreams into 512K of reality :-(
-- 
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 entry. The idea springs from the primitive wish to watch a matrix explode."
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