Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!mit-eddie!bbn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa
From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing")
Message-ID: <12465@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 88 02:17:01 GMT
References: <7239@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7226@well.UUCP> <2001@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU
Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 44

In article <2001@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> @aplvax.jhuapl.edu:trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
>In article <7226@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>In article <7239@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes:
>>>...Think about all those A500 owners (much
>>>more than there were A1000 owners) who will need to go to the trouble
>>>of a ROM change for the upgrade to 1.3.  You're fooling yourself if
>>>you think its gonna happen overnite.
>>>...
>>	As you know, 1.3 KickStart is functionally identical to 1.2
>>KickStart, with the exception of the autoboot code.  1.3 is primarily a
>>WorkBench distribution, so it's as simple as copying a disk, or buying the
>>enhancer package.
>	Bad example.  No ROM changes were needed to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2.
>	Whereas it was possible to have one person in a group "take orders"
>	and get a bunch of 1.2 upgrade packages, I doubt that such will be
>	possible for A500 owners upgrading to 1.3 (assuming that the owner
>	needs to bring the machine into the store to protect the warranty).

Why don't you shut up, if you don't know what you are talking about?  There
are NO ROM changes required to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3.  You don't need to
bring your A5000 (or B2000) to the store to upgrade to 1.3.  You will need to
bring in your machine to the store, ONLY IF you want to be able to use one
of the new autoboot devices (mostly hard disk controllers) that are now
hitting the market.  Most of these devices have plugs that allow you to turn
off autoboot, if you decide that that is what you want.  I have been running
1.3 since the first betas and I haven't upgraded to the 1.2.1 ROM (though I 
got one for free from CBM at DevCon).  Every program that I have that was 
working with 1.2, works just fine with 1.3 (actually much beter with Fast File
System).  Again, note that to use 1.3 FFS you DO NOT need any ROM upgrade.

>>	Enlighten me:  How does Apple upgrade its Mac OS?
>
>	With callous disregard for its customer base.  However, they seem to
>	be a little better at maintaining backwards compatability.

Not so.  How many Mac programs still break or misbehave with Multifinder TODAY?
Call that backward compatibility.  So far I found NO compatibility problems
between 1.2 and 1.3 in all the programs I use (mostly development tools).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
uucp:...!pollux!papa       BIX:papa       ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu
 "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=