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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enhancer 1.3 package
Keywords: NO ROMS!?
Message-ID: <622@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 22:55:20 GMT
References: <12839@eecae.UUCP> <6531@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <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!

The 1000 has write-controlled RAM for the kernel, so it's easy to
update with just a floppy disk; unfortunately you need to use the
floppy every time you power up the machine.  The 500/2000 have ROMs so
they don't need to load the kernel from floppy on power up, but they
have to swap chips to upgrade.

So why not compromise for the 3000:  EEPROMs?  The kernel would be
distributed on disk, and you'd run a special program to load it into
the EEPROMs, but thereafter you wouldn't need the floppy to power up.

Just a thought.
-Peter Schachte				"Clean water?  I'm for clean water."
pds@quintus.uucp				-George Bush
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