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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enhancer 1.3 package
Keywords: NO ROMS!?
Message-ID: <6262@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 15:27:50 GMT
References: <12839@eecae.UUCP> <6531@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <622@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Organization: Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store Co.
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Question: Are the contents of my 1.2 ROMs in my 500 derivable from
someone's kickstart disk for their 1000?  Or actually, can I make
1.3 ROMS from the 1.3 kickstart disk?  Maybe CATS would be willing
to provide some clues on this, given the technical capabilities and
resources of the people on The Net.  How many chips are involved?

In article <622@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>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!
>
>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.

Yeah.  I want my computer able to erase its basic operating system in
one fell digital signal!  Naw, maybe not!  But the idea is getting close.
If CA used EPROMs (not EEPROMS!) instead of ROMs, then you could at least
trade in your old chips for new ones.

But I don't wanna pay extra bucks for real hardware in the machine to
reprogram the proms.  That's what prom burners are for.
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