2090-2090a swap
09-Oct-88 21:24:52
Sb: #15424-2090-2090a swap
Fm: Dean Brown 72250,2677
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
Important, I won't argue about. Flexible I will! The problem I see
with loading the boot code from floppy is that each manufacturer would have
to produce their own 'boot floppy', and in doing so would keep any other
device from 'autobooting'. As I said earlier, autoboot is much much more
than just bringing up AmigaDos. With autoboot you could plug in a board and
have access to a network, without having to install any driver code on your
system. You can have every partition on every HD, WORM drive, optical disk,
ect… mounted, just by plugging in the controller board associated with
that device, and the boot off of the highest priority device in the system.
You could concieveably even replace Exec with autoboot, to the point of
supporting retargetable graphics! (my idea, not supported by claims from
CBM) With booting from floppy in the manner you describe, the only thing
you could do is to boot from a single manufacturers device, without the
opportunity to do any of the other things that autoboot currently is
capable of. And I'm certain that there are other companys out there that
have applications for autoboot that I haven't dreamed of. -Dean