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From: vincelee@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Vincent H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 on 1000
Keywords: AmigaDOS 1.4 1000
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Date: 20 Feb 90 23:50:41 GMT
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In article <131467@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <5126@sugar.hackercorp.com> (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>1.4 isn't for the 1000? Why? What does it do that requires more than a 1000?
>
>Some ideas (I don't really know, these are just educated guesses) :
>	o Maybe it requires the new chips. Some of the Screen Modes
>	  will clearly be uninteresting without them.

Seriously doubt it

>	o Maybe it needs more Chip RAM (no 1M Agni on the A1000)

If it NEEDS more that 512K chip ram, that leaves little (<512) for everybody
else.  Since 1M chip is a godsend to everyone, this is doubtful.

>	o Maybe it won't fit into 256K of WCS.

Thanks to the smart design of the ROM routines, i would think that any code
that couldn't fit in the ROMS could be moved to disk-based libraries. 
(except boot stuff, of course)  True, a workbench disk could get pretty crowded
but there's no reason an A1000 couldn't run 1.4 because of a WCS limit.

-Vince