Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!BILLW@SU-SCORE.ARPA From: BILLW@SU-SCORE.ARPA (William Chops Westfield) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: AMIGA software in RAM instead of ROM? Message-ID: <877@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 05:26:39 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.877 Posted: Thu Aug 22 05:26:39 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:37:39 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 11 One reason for doing this might be to speed things up - "standard" RAMs tend to be about twice as fast as standard ROMs/EPROMs. Once you optimize all your circuitry to run dynamic rams with 0 wait states, trying to deal with slow ROMs too could be a real pain, and everything would run slower too. I dont claim that this is why the amiga does it this way, but it COULD be a reasonable reason... BillW -------