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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing")
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Date: 2 Oct 88 02:25:04 GMT
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In article <7441@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) writes:
I (Marco Papa) wrote:
>>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
>
>Er, would you run a little ckeck for me and tell me what SetPatch does to a
>1.2 ROM machine? *IFF* it works then the only reason to ugrade the ROM is to 
>get autoboot. If it dies you really DO want to upgrade. 1.3 running with
>SetPatch is significantly more reliable than 1.2 at its best.

Sorry, but SetPatch is not a ROM upgrade, it is a software upgrade (call if
RAM upgrade).  You don't need 1.3 ROMs to run SetPatch.  I have 1.2 ROMs and
have been running SetPatch since it was available (actually since it was
called SetAlert).  I haven't seen the SetPatch code, so I don't know
if it is dependent on 1.3 software or not.  The initial setAlert released on
the nets (the one that fixed the recoverable guru on B2000s) did work just
fine on 1.2 software.  Anybody from CA wants to comment?  I concur with the
comment that 1.3 software (which includeds SetPatch) is much more reliable
than the 1.2 software, so it is worth the expense fro the "1.3 Enhancer".

T make it clear again, to run SetPatch you don't need 1.3 ROMS. To run
FFS you don't need 1.3 ROMs.  To use an autoboot device, you NEED 1.3 ROMs.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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