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From: calway@ecsvax.UUCP (James Calloway)
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Subject: Re: BYTE's PREview of the Amiga
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 23:48:04 EDT
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Since the time Byte's people looked at the Amiga, the machine's method
of storing its operating system has been changed. It will not be in ROM.
The OS and any other software needed to run the Amiga is loaded from 
a "kick-start" disk into something called "writable control store,"
which is an extra 256K of RAM over and above the nominal 256K that comes
with the basic machine. The WCS can be written to only once after the computer
is powered up. Afterwards the OS is hardware-protected from being overwritten 
by user software.



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