| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 8 May 2001 at 22:14:05 |
| Subject: | Re: OS4 and ROMs? |
Robert Cranley said,
>> Just wonderin if OS4 will work of Roms and if so
> I'd say it will take ROMs, as it's just a direct conversion from 68k to PPC,
The 68K Kickstart doesn't have to run from ROM, most accelerators copy
it to RAM anyway, which you could just as easily do from a disk file.
> but this means it won't run on classic Amigas, as they run 68k code ROMs,
> and OS4 ROMs will be PPC only.
OS4 won't be PPC only, some of it will be 68K code running under
emulation. Since the OS will gradually progress to 100% PPC, it makes
little sense to commit the code to silicon. All you need in ROM is
sufficient to boot from disk, hard or floppy.
Cheers
Neil
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