classiccmp-digest V1 #163

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Tue May 9 13:59:30 2000

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:15:28AM -0600, Derek Peschel wrote:
> 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.

IIRC, the documentation consistantly referred to it as "ROM" even though that
was actually true on 0% of the machines shipping at the time. Then again,
unless I'm confusing it with the C64, the manuals consistantly misspelled
"kernel" so they were obviously pretty sloppy (unless they meant it as
an acronym for something). So we always talked about making calls to the
"kern-AL".

Geez, remember the scam that Commodore pulled with the programming
documentation? It wasn't ready at the time the machines finally shipped, and
when they eventually did get the docs together, they decided that they would
ship the first printing only to suckers who paid lots extra to be certified
Amiga developers, or some such BS. Regular folks who had already paid for
the documentation had to wait *months* before they actually received it.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 13:59:30 BST

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