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In article <4163@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) writes:
|Finally, and this may seem like a stupid question, what does an A2000 person
|do if the slots get filled?  The A2000 has 3 PC slots and 4 Amiga slots plus
|a CPU slot (am I correct?).  Now what if somone has memory boards in two
|slots, a bridgeboard in place, and a hard drive card.  That fills all the
|Amiga slots.  

You'll have to do the same as on an IBM XT. An XT can only be expanded using
an external XT expansion chassis, which is separately powered.  I have seen
very few of these, but Computer Shopper still advertises some of them.  You
will use one of the PC slots and one of the slots on the chassis to connect the
two buses.  I doubt that anibody has ever tried this with an Amiga, so no
promises it will work.  This is just theory at this point.  On the Amiga side
there is currently no way to expand, unless somebody comes out with the
equivalent of an Amiga side expansion chassis.

|Now the accelerator board comes out.  Where do you put it?

Which accelerator board?  The C-A 68020 board goes in the "coprocessor"
slot.

|And lastly, how is the A2000 custom chip upgrade going to go?
|Are boards replaced?  Are the chips just socketed and merely have to be
|changed?

If things are like described in the A500/A2000 manual, you just have to
unplug the old chips (Agnus & Denise), put the new ones in, and change one
jumper.

| In a similar vein, how do the KickStart/Workbench upgrades work
|for the A2000?  Can you do it yourself, or do you have to bring it in?

I guess you change 1.2 Kick by taking it out and put 1.3 Kick in the sockets.

|And the final, final question, if you have an A2000 and 1.2, how can you
|boot under 1.1?  And once you go to 1.3, how can you boot under 1.2?

YOU CANNOT boot the A2000 or the A500 with 1.1.  Once you substitute the
Kickstart with 1.2 that's the only one you can boot from. On the other hand
one can Kick 1.2 and WB 1.3.  That can be done NOW if you have the 1.3
Gamma Release.

-- Marco Papa

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