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: <2237@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 88 16:59:04 GMT
References: <635@ihnet.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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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!!
->
->				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 floppy boot disk with the new ROMs containing (say) the 11/20/85
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