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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To Fix or Not To Fix
Message-ID: <1224@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 88 09:11:22 GMT
References: <635@ihnet.ATT.COM> <383@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <383@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes:
>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!!

Or just release the fix on disk: a little residend program replacing the
original (ROM-) trap handler.
This would be my way of releasing a fix; if it works and everybody likes
it, put it in a new ROM set.

Another solution would be a set of big ROMs containing both versions of
the system.
I put 6*27C512 in my 520ST+ to have the "old" and Blitter TOS availeble;
this is kind of expensive but useful...

hase
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