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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lucas + Supra
Message-ID: <6624@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 21:15:44 GMT
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in article <13332@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) says:

> My first impulse:
> "Hi, how much for a 2500?  $5100?  Yikes!"

I'm probably the last guy who knows about retail prices, but I'm sure you
can get these for under $4000, at least.

> "Hi, I'd like to order a 2500"

> But I like my 1000!!!  I like kickstart, I a morbid sort of way.

> Any ideas????

With an MMU, you can get many of the features of KickStart, plus more,
if you're willing to burn a chunk of your memory for this.  I have a 
program called "SetCPU", freely redistributable, which currently lets
you spend about 260K of 32 bit memory to speed up your system by making
the ROM kernel run in this 32 bit memory.  I'm currently testing a version
that does this in a slightly more sophisticated way, and also speeds up 
a few more things, like hard disk performance with a 2090A.  It's
theoretically possible to actually start up with a KickStart disk or
something similar, using the same MMU techniques, though it's something
I haven't pursued.

> - a bemused Blair

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