Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!hase 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 Lines: 24 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 -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP If there is something more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot, NOW! (Zaphod Beeblebrox)