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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
- References: <BzA8ys.AFF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Message-ID: <jbono.09lc@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 00:11:29 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 36
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- In article <BzA8ys.AFF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec3.014534.16766@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (D
- >on mac phee) writes:
- >
- >> The 4000 ships with 6M of Ram and a 120M drive. Besides, you need to
- >>remember that OS/2 and Windows eat the first 2M of Ram when you
- >>boot up. The Amy eats about 300K.
- > ^^^^
- >
- >
- >And how big did you say those OS ROMs were? What do you do to upgrade
- >a version?
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --
- >Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
- >Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach
- >Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
-
- The ROMS are 512K for WB 2.0 and above. Minor revisions are done via disk,
- major revisions are done via a change in ROM. When I upgraded my A3000 from a
- RAM based to a ROM based OS, it was *FAR* less painful than switching from DOS
- to OS/2 or from Win 3.0 to 3.1 or Windows to OS/2. Think about it: it was
- easier to take apart my A3000 down to the point where all the component parts
- were scattered about my ping-pong table, remove the rom, and reassemble the
- machine, than to install OS/2.
-
- John
-