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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mail Order Machine
Message-ID: <1656@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 14:40:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1656
Posted: Thu Jul 16 14:40:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 11:45:30 EDT
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <7200005@uiucdcsm> schwager@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>The thing I'm most concerned about with the Amiga 500 is the Kickstart
>in ROM.  Booting right up sounds ok, but then what happens when 
>Kickstart 1.3 comes along?  Any commentary?  

What I'm worried about in 1.3, is that I've heard that the kickstart is
now pretty packed.  If they add features for 1.3, it would seem that 
one of the kickstart resident libraries would have to move to disk.
I doubt that removing the secret messages would gain enough space to
allow much in the way of additions.

I would think that would mean Intuition.library would have to move to
disk, as you need dos.library to read a library off of disk, and you 
need graphics.library just to display stuff to the screen.  

With intuition.library resident virtually all of the time in memory that
was otherwise available in 1.2, we would notice a loss of some valuable 
available memory space, not to mention boot up time.

And what worries me more, is if someone at Commodore thought of this
and decided to allow for more PROM space in the 500/2000 than there is
Kickstart space in the 1000.  This could mean that 1.3 won't have this
problem in the 500/2000 but only in the 1000.

If that is the case, maybe Commodore better leave those secret
messages in, in the 1000 version of 1.3. :-)


Keith Doyle
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