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From: mike@system.Cambridge.NCR.COM (mike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS
Summary: What's in a name ???
Keywords: Rainbows and TOS
Message-ID: <530@system.Cambridge.NCR.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 89 12:52:08 GMT
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Sorry, I replied to this article instead of doing a followup.  Let's see
if I can get it right this time !!!

In article <1216@ultb.UUCP> Chris Freemesser writes:
>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 :
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That sounds like an awfully reasonable idea.  I'm not sure what the actual
truth of the situation is, but I think my son came up with the best reason.

Think about it ...

What is a rainbow anyway ...

	... Something always far away in the distance
	... Something you can never touch
	... Something that you dream of more often than you see
	... Something that you can never own !!!

Hmmmm,  

	for a 15 year old, he shows remarkable understanding


(No flames please ... I really am looking forward to the new TOS, whatever
it is called.  I just couldn't pass this up after he had told me his
thinking about the new name)

mike