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- From: Aldo Hoeben <io342042@student.io.tudelft.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 18:23:23 +0100
- Organization: Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering
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- George Noel wrote:
- > 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.
- > [snip]
-
- In a cd32, Workbench is included in the 1 meg! (not 512 K as in the 1200) kickstart
- rom...
-
- > 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.
- > No, not on performance; There's no reason why kickstart in RAM would perform less
- than kickstart in ROM (on the contrary). Just a difference in resources (ammount of
- RAM).
- Well, come to think of it, boottimes would be longer, as Kickstart would have to be
- read from harddisk at bootup. Ok, point taken. But runtime performance would probably
- be even better with kickstart in RAM
-
- Aldo
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