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Re: Escom 1200
« on: August 04, 2005, 08:45:17 PM »
3.1 roms for Escom A1200 and A4000T units can be found in genuine flavors here and there, however after Escom fell apart, dealers obtained rights to burn the contents onto compatible eprom chips, so those are probably what you have. :-)
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Re: Escom 1200
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2005, 09:35:08 PM »
As far as I know, some eproms have actually faster read speed than the actual, real rom chips. This is of course barely noticeable. The delay that you experience is scsi.device seeking devices for ~30 seconds on your motherboard IDE connector. This happens by default with A1200 and A4000 3.1 roms.
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Re: Escom 1200
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2005, 04:39:37 AM »
@AmigaEd & Doobrey:

Ask yourself how fast would Windows boot on your 20 year old Amiga (hypothetically speaking, of course) and you'll see that it's a moot point. :-)
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Re: Escom 1200
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2005, 02:54:24 PM »
@Wishmaster:

Well, I suppose really fast (again hypothetically speaking). Anyway, my point was not to make a Windows vs AOS argument. AOS is extremely light-weight as an OS compared to Windows, therefore AOS boots fast by default. Windows loads tons of more stuff at boot and that is percisely why it takes longer for it to boot, in general.
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