Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 1.4 on 1000 Keywords: AmigaDOS 1.4 1000 Message-ID: <5179@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Feb 90 16:04:38 GMT References: <487c19fa.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> <5126@sugar.hackercorp.com> <131467@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <5132@sugar.hackercorp.com> <5213@amiga.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 45 In article <5213@amiga.UUCP> jimm@superman.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes: > (Peter da Silva) writes: > )> If you don't mind, then don't upgrade your machine. > )Of course I bloody well mind. > Then don't upgrade your machine. That's a bit of a non-sequiter. Look, the 128K mac was a botch. The Amiga 1000 isn't. There's no technical reason you can't support AmigaDOS 1.4 on the 1000... and even make a profit on it by selling kickstart tower upgrades or whatever. I'd be happy loading part of kickstart into unprotected memory if that was what it took. But what I seem to be hearing, here, is that 1.4 won't run on the 1000 because you don't want to bother doing it, and if I don't like that I can fork over another $1000 for an Amiga 2000. If I had that kind of discretionary budget I'd already have bought a 2000 straight off. If I'm hearing wrong (and I Iasked this before with no response) why don't you post the straight poop on 1.4 and set me straight. > What a crock, Peter. You can look at this *second* opportunity to upgrade > your machine and declare that C= can't be serious about treating the A1000 > owners fairly? Give me a break. I, personally, haven't had *any* opportunity to upgrade my machine. Money is the root of all evil and all that, but it's also handy to have lots of. I've done my part for Commodore: sticking up for the Amiga, helping to sell it, putting in my time to produce PD utilities, and so on. And now you're telling me I can't upgrade to 1.4, right? Is that what I'm hearing? > And I miss the part where trading in for an A500 is more serious than > trading in for an A2000. Is it serious because it would be "free"? I don't expect it to be free. I'd pay a couple of hundred for it. It's serious because it's affordable. > How's that ol' Mac 128K working out for you? Running hypercard on it? I'm not running 1.3 on a 256K Amiga, either. telling me I can't run 1.4 on a 2-4 megabyte machine (depending on the fate of my RAM card) is pretty cold. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva . / \ \_.--._/ I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'