CompuServe Messages

Ron, I agree with much of what you say. The 2090/a contraversy leaves me more or less unmoved, as I don't see that it is important at all – actually, I think they are putting their effert in _Entirely_ the wrong place. If it were ME doing it, I would have created a disk that had as initial boot code whatever is required to autoboot – in other words, whatever is in the roms, you could put as a program in the boot sector (+ however many other sectors it needed at 512 bytes/sector) and the thing would go straight to the HD without ever doing anything "normal" on the floppy. I can't imaging that it would take more than one revolution of the disk ( a track holds a LOT of data ) to get the code into the machine that it would need to boot. After all – you want the floopy seeking alla time? No, of course not. You wanna have a disk not inserted? No, of course not. So, you put this "boot" disk in, and bingo – all problems solved, including the one of having to put a new ROM in there. But – I can't expect CBM to think of these things. They're over on BIX sucking up to BYTE. As for the rest of it, yeah… CBM has made a mess of most everything. I would have bought a sidecar – IF I could have put memory in it, and an HD. I understand that you can (sorta, with bugz) share a hard drive, but you cannot have Amiga memory in it. Just one more way CBM screwed the a1000 owners. –Ben–