On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:07:52PM -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Deano Calver wrote:
>
> > Your using an Amiga 1000. Its doesn't have its boot software (called
> > Kickstart) in ROM like every Amiga, so you need a Kickstart disk. I
> > originally typed boot firmware but then realised that made no sense in
> > this case :-)
> >
> > Amiga 1000 also has a different chipset that misses a few graphics modes.
>
> So Commodore thought they could be successful at defying convention by
> giving the stripped down model a higher model number?
No... the A1000 was the original model... the A500 was marketed as a
one piece "stripped down model", and the A2000 was the big boy.
The reason the A1000 needs a Kickstart disk is because the ROMs weren't
ready in 1985. By the time the A500 and A2000 came out a couple of years
later, C= _tried_ to get A1000 owners to upgrade to A2000s with two or
three sets of large incentives, but lots of people wouldn't switch.
And it's not just them... I'm supposed to know that a Mac IIci is faster
than a IIsi? Doesn't 's' come after 'c' in the alphabet? And how do
you rank, based on name alone, a IIILC and a IIfx? I'm sure lots of us
could come up with naming schemes that are bizarre today.
> They certainly were insane, weren't they?
Well... that's a different matter...
-ethan
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