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From: aer@alice.UucP (y)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Some questions
Message-ID: <4348@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 18:06:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.4348
Posted: Thu Sep 19 18:06:08 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:09:33 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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I have a question:

 In this month's _Compute_ magazine which I found in the library, an article
on the Amiga stated that current Amigas, sold as 256K machines, would actually
have 512K or RAM, the upper 256K of which would be write-protected and
used as virtual ROM for the operating system.

 Later Amigas were supposed to have this memory removed, and replaced with ROM chips.

 There was no talk of being able to upgrade one's RAM Amiga to a ROM Amiga
when the operating system was compacted and given to ROM. This means that
early Amigas will have to have the operating system on disk, and that it
will also to take time to load the operating system at each powerup.
So how long does it take to load? And by the way, what is the transfer rate
on the disk drive ports?

When will the ROM based Amigas come out? Do you really think Amiga won't upgrade
the machines? (There are two empty DIP spaces on an Amiga motherboard.)

Could the extra 256K be used if and after a ROM upgrade? Wouldn't it be
nice to be able to modify one's operating system a bit anyway, and have it
always upgradeable? What is a better deal? A RAM Amiga now, or a ROM Amiga
later?

(Please post to the net- this I believe is of general interest.)
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