Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Enhancer 1.3 package Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 88 04:06:50 GMT References: <12839@eecae.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: <12839@eecae.UUCP> conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes: > So I excitedly clear off the monitor and dig into the package to find - > NO ROMS! > > I guess the question is - Hey CBM, is this the 1.3 PACKAGE or not? If you're > a 1000 owner it is. But if your a 2000/500 owner, you're "s@#t out of luck." Well, it does make sense in a way. As a 1000 owner, I don't want to have to pay extra for the ROMS when I don't need them. > I think this package lays down for good any rumors that the 1000 support is > being dropped - hell, with this the 1000 is getting BETTER support! Well, after you install the ROMS in your 2000, you'll get to avoid the floppy entirely. Us 1000 owners are still stuck with Kickstart. There are advantages and disadvantages with both machines. It's really not worth complaining about. > > It is noticeably annoying to have to have an OFS partition. I'm a big fan of > huge, monolithic drives. Of course, you do know there are technical reasons why the OFS partition is necessary for autoboot, like the fact FFS isn't in ROM and it has to be bootstrapped from somewhere. --M Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: mp1u%andrew.cmu.edu@cmccvb "my friends say she's a dumb blonde, but they don't know she dyes her hair"