peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) (05/03/91)
valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes: >No magic is required to run 2.0 on an A1000. I do that quite often using >ZKick and a kickstart image. >It might actually be a good idea for CBM to not only sell 2.0 ROMs, but >also a disk with a 2.0 Kickstart image on it. You see, replacing the ROMs >might cost an end user as much as $100, while 512K of ram, the amount stolen >by the Kickstart image, costs only $25. Forthermore, that would allow >customers to boot under 1.3 or 2.0, as they please. >In fact, it is irrelevant whether CBM is going to distribute 2.0 on disk or >not. It is trivial to read a Kickstart image from ROMs and put it on disk. >And ZKick is freely distributable. Either CBM shrink-wraps 2.0 disks along with >with some nicely printed manuals, or people will pirate in droves. >Valentin >-- >"An operating system without virtual memory Name: Valentin Pepelea > is an operating system without virtue." Phone: (408) 985-1700 > Usenet: mips!btr!valentin > - Ancient Inca Proverb Internet: valentin@btr.com Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Arexx licensed on a "per copy sold" basis? That would mean that a disk version (and, face it, it would be pirated everywhere!) would mean that people like Bill Hawes (Arexx Author) would loose out... Unless of course, that CBM bought arexx for 2.0 outright... That's a another possible reason why they are so insistant on not releasing -- Peter Wemm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter@cs.curtin.edu.au (Home) +61-9-450-5243 Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Nuke the Simpsons!