Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rit!ultb!clf3678 From: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS Summary: Atari got cute with this one Message-ID: <1216@ultb.UUCP> Date: 9 Sep 89 02:03:03 GMT References: <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems Lines: 17 In article <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET (Marcelino Bernardo) writes: >Recently I have read Ken Badertscher of Atari refer to TOS 1.4 as the >"Rainbow" TOS. I was just curious. Why was the this name chosen? > >Marcelino Bernardo >mbernar@erenj.bitnet With TOS 1.4, if you look under DESKTOP INFO, instead of the old black fuji symbol we get with 1.0 and 1.2, you get a nifty rainbow colored fuji, with the colors scrolling upwards. It's pretty, but I think it is unnecessary. I think Ken might have gotten a little silly that day, and decided to put in some pretty colors. Right Ken? :^) Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology | What I like : BITNET: %clf3678@RITVAX GEnie: C.FREEMESSER | 1) My Atari ST USENET: Just reply and hope it gets through | 2) My '77 Mercury Call the ACORN BBS (716)436-3078, 300/1200 baud | 3) Coke Classic