Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!eric From: eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: AmigaDOS not im ROM Message-ID: <3353@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:56:08 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3353 Posted: Mon Aug 19 21:56:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:38:58 EDT References: <584@brl-tgr.ARPA> <16177@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 >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 -- ARPA: LAVITSKY@RUTGERS UUCP: ...{harvard,seismo,ut-sally,sri-iu,ihnp4}!topaz!eric SNAIL: 16 Oak St., Flr 2 New Brunswick, NJ 08903