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- Subject: Re: AmigaOS Versions
- Message-ID: <alien.02f0@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Date: 9 Jan 93 23:45:39 GMT+12
- References: <C0J819.143@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <C0J819.143@dcs.ed.ac.uk> dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke) writes:
- >Amid all of the confusion, I will now survey what I believe are the major versions of
- >the OS and submit for correction by the wisdom of the net.....
- >
- > 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.
- > 1.4 - (Never happened - became 2.0)
- > 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.
-
- I bought an A2000HD (about 6 months ago) with 2.05 in ROM; I assume all A2000s
- now in production have it. BTW, the A1500 seems to be unique to the UK; from
- what I've been able to pick up from British magazines, it seems that the
- version sold as the "A1500" in the UK is the same machine everyone else knows
- as the "A2000", and the British "B2000" is known as the "A2000HD" everywhere
- else (B = British?). Anyone know why the differences?
-
- > 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.
- >
- >Can people add to or correct this?
-
- The Libraries RKM has a list of Kickstart and Workbench version numbers; it
- only goes up to 2.04, of course.
-
- Library Kickstart/Workbench
- version version
- ------- ---------------------------------------
- 30 1.0
- 31 1.1 (NTSC version)
- 32 1.1 (PAL version)
- 33 1.2
- 34 1.3 (standard version)
- 35 1.3 (special version for A2024 monitor)
- 36 2.0
- 37 2.04
-
- The 2.05 libraries also have 37.x version numbers. Library versions 38 and
- 39 seem to be 2.1 and 3.0 respectively.
-
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- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
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- "I blame you for the moonlit sky and the dream that died with the Eagle's flight
- I blame you for the moonlit nights when I wonder why are the seas still dry
- Don't blame me, sleeping satellite" (Tasmin Archer)
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