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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- References: <4jk246$kid@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <526.6664T1403T2155@earthlink.net>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0mdi@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 3 Apr 96 19:08:54 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <526.6664T1403T2155@earthlink.net> psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield) writes:
- >[snip]
- >>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]
- >>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.
- >
- >Of course the WB is in the ROMs. do you think the entire WorkBench is in that
- >tiny command LoadWB?
-
- It's not so simple. In fact in the case of the A4000T, workbench.library
- has already been driven out of ROM onto the harddisk, because they needed
- more space in ROM to drive SCSI *and* IDE on the motherboard and to be able
- to boot from either interface.
-
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