Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DBNUAMA1.BITNET!VBRANDT From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Curious about Rainbow TOS Message-ID: <8909120324.AA14668@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 12 Sep 89 03:24:07 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 89 03:42:07 SET In Info-Atari16 Digest #456, Marcelino Bernardo asks: >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? This was based on the silly assumption that most ST users have a color monitor, whereas it is just the other way around ... at least in this part of the world. (Sorry Ken, couldn't resist that one :-) If you have a color monitor and select the info entry from the Desktop, you'll see a nice multicolored Atari logo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 (will go away late '89) Volker A. Brandt UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 (soon) Angewandte Mathematik UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt (Bonn, West Germany) ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU