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From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg)
Subject: Re: 2.0 for non-3000's
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 17:42:29 GMT

In article <1991Jun21.172230.1987@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>,
jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
|>	Ok, I will clarify. This wouldn't really apply to A3000s, because
|>they have an MMU to protect kickstart. But this would apply to older systems
|>that didn't have the luxury of an MMU (like moi). So far I've only received
|>rebuttals from A3000 owners. How about comments from owners of more lowly
|>models? 

I have an Amiga 2500 '020 with an MMU.  I tried my girlfriend's
kickstart loader on my computer, and it works fine.  If you're using
ZKICK or something else that loads the kickstart, you are doing
something that's not supposed to be done, so that's why you have your
problems.  Wait for the ROMs (and if you're not a registered developer
or Amiga 3000 owner, you better NOT have kickstart 2.x in your
possession!  That's illegal!  'Nuff said.)

|>>Also the loading of the kickstart on a 3000 takes only about 2 seconds.
|>>Hardly noticable in my opinion.
|>
|>	The whole Amiga community is NOT just made up of A3000s! Back in my
|>A1000 days, all I had were floppy drives. The initial loading of the os
|>seemed like a drawn out process. Imagine compounding that with the time
|>required to load a kickstart image. Furthermore, the WorkBench disk is usu-
|>ally too full to accomodate a kickstart image as well. What do you suggest
|>for them? A multidisk set?

Like I said, you needn't worry, because you shouldn't even have a copy
of kickstart 2.x unless you're a developer or an Amiga 3000 owner.  When
the ROMs come out you have no worries, and booting up is lickedy-split.

Read CBM's licensing agreement before you post here - Commodore is watching!

|>-jeff

-Kris
                            
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