Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long)

[Matthew Dillon]

In article <20429 at cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup at cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <TFIA+=1 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>I would have preferred an official 1000 kickstart disk, though, if you don't
>>mind a brief foray into fantasy mode...
>
>	It's not technically impossible (though it still requires at least
>256K of autoconfig ram, and a bunch of work on bryce's part).
>
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>Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
>Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system
>is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
>(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)

    Even though I don't use my A1000 much anymore (not w/ an A3000 on my
    desk), it seems to me that that is just making for unnecessary work.

    why not have an A1000 kickstart which kicks a dummy 1.3 OS which then
    does nothing more than load another 512K (2.0) off the floppy?  As far
    as the user is concerned, it would LOOK the same (stick in a 2.0
    kickstart and it goes), just take longer.

    The 512K could go into *normal* ram so it's contiguous.  I guess
    you'd have to write off the WCS since, it seems, to leave it
    write-enabled also leaves the boot rom mapped.

				    -Matt
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