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If they put it in ROM, they will surely allow you to boot KickStart off a
floppy as well. That's just common sense. However, the idea of having a ROM
as well as the KS RAM is new to me. 256K of RAM is not a big expense, but I'm
not sure about the circuitry that allows it to be write-protected. (Seems
pretty simple, but what do I know). So maybe they've gotten rid of the WCS
daughterboard, and just added another 256K to the standard memory, with the
write-protect hardware, and the ROM. Yes, then you could boot ROM to WCS RAM,
and then as the disk-resident part loaded, it could patch the WCS copy of the
ROM as necessary. A neat way to have patchable ROM.
Or how about this: 256K of battery-backed RAM. No ROM. You have to use the
KickStart disk the first time you boot the machine (unless it's done at the
factory), but then it isn't needed again until you get a new version of KS.
Now that would be >nice<… – Bela