#Kickstart in ROM
Here's some info on a product that may be of interest to some of the
forum members.
Creative Microsystems of Tigard, Ore. (the same design team that put
together the aMEGA board and SCSI interface for C Ltd.) has designed a internal
hardware mod that puts Kickstart (1.2) in ROM and frees up the Writeable
Control Store as 256K (non-autoconfigured) fast RAM.
The cost of the mod is about $140 (those chips are fairly pricey) which
is not bad, I suppose, if you add up the cost of additional RAM plus the faster
boot-up time with KS in ROM.
I don't have it myself, so I can't personally give any report on its
performance. I do have faith in the guys at Creative Microsystems, though, so I
tend to trust the design and reliability of their products.
Bob L.