Amiga 1000 boot ROM & Kickstart 27.5(!)

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Wed Feb 24 16:36:33 1999

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> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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> > The Kickstart image gets stuffed into the WCS daughter card in the A1000
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> Was I the only one bothered by the Amiga guys calling this a Writable
> Control Store? Call it slushware, but WCS means microcode to me.

My first exposure to "WCS" was in the context of microcode - on a VAX-11/750.
I, too, was surprised to see them reuse "WCS" on the A1000, given what it does.

The only place I've seen the term "slushware" used is on the DECmate boxes.
AFAIK, its use there matches your use here.

-ethan
Received on Wed Feb 24 1999 - 16:36:33 GMT