Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!braner From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ROM cartridges Message-ID: <1945@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 00:13:16 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.1945 Posted: Tue Jan 6 00:13:16 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 19:18:11 EST References: <1881@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <775@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 18 [] There ARE some things I would like to have in ROM. But I only need to load the compiler, etc to the RAMdisk ONCE, then the compile cycle is fast for however many times I need to go through it. As for running out of 1 Meg: If the 128K of ROM is what you lack, you're using the wrong compiler (Megamax compiler+linker+libs, + microemacs, is about 250K). And soon we'll have 2 Meg and more! Atari has had a long tradition of ROM cartridge ports, they do it for nostalgia. But it's obsolete. Lets have a real bus expansion connector (a la Amiga) instead! Whoever sells software in ROM rather than on disk, as a form of "copy protection", is the one guilty of "paranoid cynicism". - Moshe Braner