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- From: c92caren@IDA.LiU.SE (Dingbats)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS Versions
- Message-ID: <C92CAREN.93Jan10003648@ide16.IDA.LiU.SE>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 23:36:52 GMT
- References: <C0J819.143@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden
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- In-Reply-To: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk's message of 8 Jan 93 11: 03:09 GMT
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- In article <C0J819.143@dcs.ed.ac.uk> dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke) writes:
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- > 1.0 - Was there one? Perhaps for early 1000's.
- > 1.1 - On Kickstart disk for A1000 - the oldest version I have.
- > 1.2 - First version to be found in ROM, in early 500's and 2000's - could be
- > crashed by moving a Workbench window offscreen.
- > 1.3 - The first reasonably stable, and longest lived version (3 years).
- > 1.3.2 - Disk only upgrade, released with later A500's.
- 1.3.3 - Disk only (i think...) released with even later A500's
- (the '92 releases anyway...)
-
- > 1.4 - (Never happened - became 2.0)
- Wasn't 1.4 a specia| version of 1.3 with support for the 2024 (or
- whatever it's called) greyscale hires monitor?
-
- > 2.01, 2.02 - Disk-only (SuperKickstart) for early A3000's. Unstable.
- > 2.04 - The first major release of 2.0x, for 3000's and in ROM for A500+/2000.
- > ROM size increased to 512K. No more meditation. Lots of fixes. First
- > decent version of Workbench. ECS support.
- > 2.05 - Upgrade to above with minor fixes and support for IDE HDs (A600). Supplied
- > with A1500 as software-only upgrade to 2.04 and in ROM in the 600.
- > 2.10 - Current version for non-AGA machines. Locale.library, fixes, PostScript,
- > some other stuff. I don't know if this is official in the UK but it IS
- > available. Supplied with current A3000's.
- > 3.0 - 2.10 with some extra bits, mainly to support the AGA (AA ?) chipset.
- > Supplied with A1200/A4000.
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