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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Diff between OS 3 and 3.1?
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- Date: 31 Jan 96 22:53:57 MEZ
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- In article <19960123.1190640.B46F@olympus.net> dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling) writes:
- >David Gentry (dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com) wrote:
- >: >I think I read somewhere that PCMCIA support was removed from the 3.1 ROMS -
- >: >The A1200 should be OK with the WB3.1 software running on top of KS3.0 - I
- >: >think - somone confirm this please.
- >:
- >: I think I saw that Paxtron was selling the WB3.1 separate from the 3.1 ROMs (I could
- >: be wrong). I was wondering how much different would it be to keep the 3.0 ROMs and
- >: use them with WB3.1 as opposed to getting 3.1 ROMs and 3.1 WB (besides about $60).
- >: Does anyone know?
- >:
- >I bought one of the 3.1 kits shortly after they first came out.
- >It was one of the kits for the A4000/A1200.
- >The rom that came with it was for the A4000.
- >I assume the company the manufactured 3.1 (Village Tronic) told the software
- >houses that A1200 users could use the A4000 roms in the A1200 but they
- >would loose support for the PCMCIA port. Because the A4000 does not have a
- >PCMCIA port.
-
- This was perhaps in the *very* first days of the 3.1 update kit.
- A bit later they got real A1200 3.1 ROMs from the then still existing
- West Chester/Norristown engineering, and since then we have full
- A1200 3.1 KS ROMs *with* PCMCIA support.
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