On Saturday 20 December 2008, Frank Cox wrote: >On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:29:37 -0600 > >Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> One other thing - was the Amiga booting from ROM? > >Depends on the Amiga. On the 500 and 1000 models, you had to boot from a >Kickstart disk, then boot from a Workbench disk. The 2000 had a Kickstart > rom, but you then had to boot Workbench from a disk (either a 3.5" floppy > or a hard drive). Yup, and everytime you loaded another piece of hardware, it was a soft reboot to register it for system use. My fully loaded a2k, with a pp&s 68040 card, with 64 megs of ram on it, 2 megs of chip, and all slots full, took over a minute for a warm reboot, nearly 1.5 for a cold one. >-- >MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com >DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Given enough time and money, eventually Microsoft will re-invent UNIX. -- From a Slashdot.org post -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
