Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich
From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To Fix or Not To Fix
Message-ID: <965@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 88 04:55:54 GMT
References: <635@ihnet.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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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!!
>
>Remember the Original 520ST came with a floppy that booted in the OS

	One thing that one *must remember here though.

	Although one can boo ththe old rom from floppy, that does not 
	mean the program will work. I have the Blit roms installed in my 
	machine, and although say a program bombs with say 4 bombs, when 
	I boot the TOS on disk, and then run the program, I get 2 bombs, 
	er mushrooms... 

	One comes immediatley to mind, say ST Accounts.

	Also remember that many are self booting disks, and don't always 
	blow GEM\TOS out of the machine.


>
>				Bryan DeLaney
>				AT&T Bell Laboratories
>				Naperville, IL


	rich.....
	UUCP: {uwvax}!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich


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