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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
- Message-ID: <9446@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 06:08:18 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.022407.26450@Armstrong.EDU> < <AHANSFOR.92Jul24104956@graywacke.wpi.edu>> < <1992Jul24.153748.23488@hubcap.clemson.edu>> <1992Jul28.030730.8467@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <28JUL199207552041@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <28JUL199207552041@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.030730.8467@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes...
- >>
- >>2.04 is (I believe) over 1 year old. There is a good bit more to programming
- >>different revisions than that.
-
- 2.0 is even 2 years old, shipped first with the A3000. But the current,
- released version for all models, 2.04, is ca. over 1 year old.
-
- >But 500's are still being released with 1.3 stuff (and 600's? not sure).
- >Since this is their more popular computer, It would be stupid to force
- >2.0 on people like this.
-
- NO. Every Amiga (with CDTV being the only exception) ships with 2.0 today,
- also A500, A500+, A600. Also old samples from backstore should now be
- sold, you shouldn't find any with 1.3 on the shelves.
-
- >The other problem is the Euro market. Has 2.0
- >been accepted as well as it has over here?
-
- Well, as I said, also the Euro market *is* already purely 2.0.
-
- >Incidentally, is the upgrade just chips and software/manuals? and can this
- >be done at home (i know that almost all the chips on the board are socketed,
- >so switching and relplacement are easy)?
-
- Yes, it's easy. It's one chip (Kickstart ROM) and several disks, and the
- Kickstart ROM is always socketed, even in the else SMT A600.
-
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