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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 19:33:21 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
- : > : 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?
-
- : It doesn't make *that much* room.
-
- Well, they could also include icon.library, all the silly amigados script
- commands as well and the rest of the non-essential booting components of the
- os.
-
- : > Do you know what they plan to do with the PPC amiga rom-wise?
-
- : It certainly can't get smaller than 512K given how code tends to
- : `expand' with the PPC.
-
- I meant, will the os migrate from rom with the PPC amiga? Or will the os
- only be disk based when it runs on other PPC hardware?
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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