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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
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Subject: Re: Enhancer 1.3 package
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Date: 24 Nov 88 13:15:46 GMT
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Re: Philip Staub's comments ...

Sure, the A1000 is conducive to "EPROMization"; a lot of us have done that
and programs to read one's Kickstart disk (or the "WCS" RAM area) and create
files of either Motorola S-record or Intel hex format suitable for a variety
of EPROM burners are quite common (at least in this (Silicon Valley) area).

HOWEVER: the original question to which Dana alluded concerned an A2000, and
its ROM's data path is 16-bits wide; to the best of my knowledge, there are NO
EPROMs with such a data path width (and I use a LOT of different kinds of
EPROMs in my commercial products).

CBM has its own "silicon foundry" and makes its own custom ROMs for the Amiga.

In the (present) absence of 1.3 Kickstart ROMs, the technique chosen by many
has been to fabricate an EPROM adapter card for their A2000 systems.


Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]