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3000 & 2.04

    21-May-95 15:57:29
Sb: #46822-3000 & 2.04
Fm: Rob Hays 72764,2066
To: RAL lake 76422,1155
RAL Lake, The earliest 3000's used special ROMS, and what was called SuperKickStart. This was so C= could finish the 2.x OS after starting to sell the hardware. It is possible (I believe, my 3000 had the 2.x ROMS when I bought it) to replace the ROMS in your machine with 2.04 ROMS, or 3.1 ROMS. You would gain 512k of RAM currently being used to hold the KickStart routines, but would loose a speed advantage (32 bit RAM is accessed faster than ROMS). I'm not familer with the version numbers of the various incarnations of 2.0, 2.01, etc to know which you have. It's possible that something like 2.01 isn't compatible with your 2.04 Workbench floppy. I know from other people's messages it is possible to produce a SuperKickStart file from later versions of the OS, but don't know how to do this. I know this isn't a lot of help, but maybe will point you in the right direction. Rob Hays