Subject: Re: bootstrap?
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: David L Miller <dlm@cac.washington.edu>
List: amiga
Date: 01/10/1995 14:01:28
On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> you wrote in <199501100427.XAA07676@pain.lcs.mit.edu>:
> > I've seen many demo's takeover the amiga using custom bootblocks (as
> > well as many commercial games).  Why isn't this done ?
> 
> Why should it ? What so bad about loading the kernel from AmigaOS ?
> Lots of work with no real advantage.
> 

If the kernel loaded from a custom bootblock, would it then be possible
to have a machine completely _without_ AmigaOS?

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