RE: 1541 ROMs

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_SDF.ORG>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 04:56:38 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1412270455140.4999@faeroes.freeshell.org>
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, William Levak wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Martin Hoffmann-Vetter wrote:
>
>> Hello William,
>> 
>>> I have list the -02 and -06 ROMs as revisons 1a and 2a because the are
>>> almost identical to revisons 1 and 2, and because Commodore didn't
>>> think they were significant enough to release world wide.
>>
>>>          ROMs          Revision
>>> 325302-01, 901229-01     r0
>>> 325302-01, 901229-02     r1a Japan
>>> 325302-01, 901229-03     r1
>>> 325302-01, 901229-05     r2
>>> 325302-01, 901229-06     r2a Europe
>> 
>> I think it's known that the revision part of the part number is chronology.
>> So the question is, why is p/n 901229-06 with revision 2a after revision 2
>> with p/n 901229-05 when p/n 901229-02 with revision 1a is before revision 1
>> with p/n 901229-03?
>
> Because there are only three bytes different between r1a and r1.  That is,
> r1a is closest to r1.  If you want it to be strictly chronological, then it 
> should be r0z and r1.

If you don't like those suggestions, how about calling it r1 beta.



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