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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
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 00:13:16 1987
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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