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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 19:30:14 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4jk246$kid@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4ijv2l$d8l@sundog.tiac.net> <4is3lc$1b7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <13213799@sourcery.han.de> <4j46cp$19j@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Workbench from ROMS?!?!
- Keywords: Huh?
-
- In article <4j46cp$19j@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
-
- >: > PCI svga cards. Going to 1 Meg roms seems silly to me, it would be much
- >: > better to put more on the hard drive.
- >
- >: 1 Meg ROMs may be inevitable if the machine is going to boot from
- >: CD-ROM. The current ROM is already creaking like a wooden hut in a gale,
- >: that little space it left. The CD-ROM filing system has to fit
- >: in there. You can't put everything onto hard disk drive.
- >
- >Surely they could take workbench from the rom(s) to make room? Do you know
- >what they plan to do with the PPC amiga rom-wise?
-
- Huh? Take workbench from ROMS? I didn't even know Workbench was "IN" the
- ROMS! Workbench is the disk you insert after initial bootup (for non HD
- owners) and the disk(s) you install on your HD if you have one so it is
- already out of ROMS. This is the equivalent to PC Windows "Program
- Manager" or the new interface with the "start" option in Windows '95. I
- shouldn't say equivalent as Workbench still has a lot of advantages but
- some disadvatages (non multithreaded and not as fancy appearance anymore
- without third party additions).
-
- Surely you meant Kickstart, which is basically the ROMS anyway. Taking
- this out of ROMS would mean more RAM and and would be a hit on performance.
-
- >Regards,
- >
- >BM
- >
-
- -=*George*=-
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