Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS Message-ID: <124635@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 13 Sep 89 18:36:36 GMT References: <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21 In article <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> (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? I don't know of course but I have some ideas : Because you can see it but you can't touch it ? It's Sam's way of promising you that you won't ever be flooded with bogus product announcements? It's only visible on very wet days and from certain angles? Atari bought a bunch of DEC personal computers and this is the version of TOS that supports them? I'm sure there are lots of possibilities... --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "If I were driving a Macintosh, I'd have to stop before I could turn the wheel."