Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!alliant!rosenkra From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: To Fix or Not To Fix Message-ID: <2238@alliant.Alliant.COM> Date: 16 Aug 88 20:30:13 GMT References: <635@ihnet.ATT.COM> Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 24 --- In article <635@ihnet.ATT.COM> bryan@ihnet.ATT.COM (b. k. delaney) writes: ->There is a very simple solution to the problem of fixing things in ->the ROMS that cause bad programs to break. -> ->If you have a program that does not work with the old version of the OS ->then boot from Floppy the old version of the OS and use your program!! -> -> Bryan DeLaney -> AT&T Bell Laboratories -> Naperville, IL now why didn't our friends at atari think of that? all they would have to do is provide a boot disk along with the new ROMs containing (say) the 11/20 OS or the mega os. they could even make another incremental profit by charging (say) $10-15 for the floppy (if the person ordering wanted it). it shouldn't take more than a man month to put the os on a bootable floppy and maybe another man month to test. i suspect they really didn't fix anything or they just don't have the marketing saavy :^). good suggestion...hope atari is listening... -bill