classiccmp-digest V1 #163

From: Mark Gregory <mgregory_at_vantageresearch.com>
Date: Tue May 9 10:48:05 2000

-----Original Message-----


>
>Just like the original Amiga circa 1985, which loaded Kickstart off of
disk
>into write once protected RAM. Why?? Because the ROM code had not yet
been
>finalized when the computer was put on the market.
>
>Another fine example of how marketing guys try to BS electrons . . .
>
>Gary Hildebrand
>


And the A3000 when first released, which resurrected the Kickstart disk a
second time.

Actually, I thought that soft-kickable Amigas were great; the A1000 and
A3000 could both use a wider variety of OS versions with less fuss than
those where the Kickstart was entirely in ROM. And once you put the
softkick on a bootable HD, it didn't slow down the boot sequence that much.
Great if you occasionally needed to boot 1.3 to run an older game.

Even the Amigas with Kickstart in ROM could be soft-kicked if necessary. I
ran an A2000 with a 1.3 ROM that soft-kicked to a 2.0 ROM image, so I could
run OS 2.0 when it was first released.

Those were happy days!

Mark.
Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 10:48:05 BST