daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (02/16/90)
In article <4509@orion.cf.uci.edu> eapu030@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jason Goldberg) writes: >In article <Jan.31.11.12.14.1990.6013@elbereth.rutgers.edu> bartz@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Edward Bartz) writes: >> I understand that CBM has come out with a halfcard to autoboot >>a 2090. I have three questions. What's the model number (I knew it >>but can't remember)? Is it available yet? What does it cost? This thing is called the 2090B. They made some a while back, no idea on cost or availabilty. >I havent heard of a CBM product to auto-boot the 2090 while there is a >third party device to do it. A German company makes one, which they claim also have an improved driver for the 2090 in it. I saw this at last week's DevCon; at the very least, it does autoboot directly from FFS like a 2091. >An interesting side-note is that I have seen the 2090 auto-boot under Unix >with no modification to the controller. The A2620 and A2630 ROMs have the basic UNIX 2090 driver code in them, making this possible. >-Jason- -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Too much of everything is just enough