Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!hedley
From: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2090A
Message-ID: <5007@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 12:26:22 GMT
References: <1009@esunix.UUCP> <12851@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <12851@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>
>For us still stuck with the non-autoboot A2090, I got the following 
>information from a local CBM representative that was present at a User
>Group meeting today. He stated that "A2090 owners will be able to have
>autoboot since CBM is planning to release a "daughterboard" that will include
>the autoboot ROMs and that will be socketed onto the A2090".  He did not 
>give any details on price and availability of such a daughterboard.
>So don't give away your 'old A2090 for an A2090A.  Any comment/denial/flame
>from CBM representatives is welcome :-)
>
>-- Marco Papa 'Doc'

That's interesting. 

Seems to me, the easier way to do this would be a little ROM only board
with drivers that would look for the A2090. Such a board would take a
whole expansion slot. Daughter boards are always nasty and you wouldm't
want users attaching them anyway.

This is, of course, entirely hypothetical. :-)

Hedley