Re: Eagle (Was: GEMDOS from VBL)

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

>  > Eagle (is it the name of 030 accelerator for Falcon?) 
>  
> The Eagle was the very first TT clone, produced by GE Soft.
> I have very little info about it, otherwise.

It was an interesting piece of hardware, mostly because the CPU was on
a separate card, and that it had 6 (or 8) slots for CPUs...

> I always wondered about that.  WHY is MiNT started last, not first?

Because MiNT use bios, xbios and gemdos (although 1.15.x replaces 99%
of GEMDOS now), and all extensions to these must be present before
MiNT runs.

But what's the big deal in running MiNT first? I think it works very
well the way it works now, and don't see any point in changing it. Are
there any good reasons for doing this? 


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