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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.3 questions
Keywords: Kickstart, FFS, 1.3
Message-ID: <1141@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 02:08:55 GMT
References: <560@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <560@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer) writes:
>
>1. Are there ANY differences between Kickstart 1.3 (shipped with the
>	Enhancer package) and Kickstart 1.2?  (The 1.3 Kickstart disk in the 
>	package that I bought is unreadible, so I could send it back, but
>	if it is the same as 1.2, why bother?)  This is for an A1000, of
>	course.
>...
>I would be grateful for any advice about these questions.
>
>Pat Palmer

Well, there are at *least* two differences between 1.2 Kickstart and 1.3
Kickstart:

1.  The little number below the hand & disk (wow, that was a biggie!)

and

2.  1.3 Kickstart will autoboot from either RAD: (the recoverable RAM disk) or
    from a hard disk (if you have a controller with autoboot ROMs, that is)

Actually, this information (well, at least the 2nd item) is covered in the
documentation which comes with the 1.3 Enhancer, if you've had a chance to
read it yet.  Other than the above changes, no, I don't think there were a lot
of other ones.  And, the manual does state that Kickstart 1.2 will work fine
with AmigaDOS 1.3 (so that A500/A2000 owners with 1.2 in ROM can still use 1.3
while they are waiting for new boot ROMs to arrive.
-- 
  - Mike Shawaluk       (...!uunet!uwmcsd1!lakesys!mikes)