![]() ![]() Once there was a valid Kickstart in the WOM, the bootstrap ROM detected that, so instead of prompting for the Kickstart Disk, it instead told the Amiga 1000 to follow the instructions in the Kickstart. In the Amiga 1000, this was referred to as the “bootstrap” ROM, and it was an extremely minimal bit of computer code that prompted the user to insert the Kickstart Disk, and then once the system detected that the Kickstart Disk was inserted, it loaded the contents of the Kickstart Disk into the special 256K of WOM (Write Once Memory), changed this memory to be Read Only Memory, and then restarted the machine. When an Amiga is first turned on, the very first thing it does is load in some computer code from Read Only Memory (ROM) and it then follows those instructions. ![]() ![]() The intention of this page is to help people understand what each of these things is, and how they relate to each other. For people not familiar with the Amiga, it may appear confusing when people talk about Kickstart, Workbench and the AmigaOS, what each of those things is, and how they relate to each other. ![]()
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