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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: kick 1.3
Keywords: Kickstart 1.3
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Date: 21 Jun 88 07:25:28 GMT
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In article <57269@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>Just so that things are *PERFECTLY* clear here. The *only* thing that 
>1.3 *KICKSTART* buys you is the ability to automatically boot from a 
>hard disk. Chances are you don't need this so you might want to save

Actually you can autoboot from ANY autoboot device, including the
1.3 RRD (C-A Removable Ram Disk), which can save you a few seconds
after a GURU.  I agree that just this might not be worth the expense.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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