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From: eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS not im ROM
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:56:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 21:56:08 1985
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>From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray)
>Date: 15 Aug 85 01:33:44 GMT
>From pictures it seems the Amiga just has another 256K of DRAMs that the
>OS is loaded into.  Who cares if it is "hardware locked"?  The Amiga OS
>must be pretty buggy if the designers went to the trouble of write protecting
>the OS memory.  In an appliance computer such as the Amiga, you should *never*
>have to reset the machine!

Well, I've learned a little more. The OS is loaded into RAM and the
write enable line to the RAM is turned off. Who called the Amiga an
'appliance' computer? - sounds like Steve Jobs' Mac jargon to me...
and people are always resetting their Macs...

Eric
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