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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 on disk
Keywords: TOS 1.4 disk ROM Rainbow
Message-ID: <1689@atari.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 18:02:16 GMT
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wardlaw@ucrmath.UCR.EDU (Johnie Wardlaw) writes:
>Now that TOS 1.4 (aka Rainbow TOS) is available, does this mean that the 
>disk based beta version supplied to registered developers is "up for grabs"?

If by "up for grabs" you mean "freely distributable" the answer is no.
Besides being illegal (it was supplied to developers under their
nondisclosure agreements, and is copyright by Atari in any case) it's
dangerous.  The version on disk is not the version in ROM.  Also, it's
not good business to let people use lots of different, unofficial
versions: we don't want to be in the position of saying, "Sorry, we
can't help you; we don't support the OS you're using."

Please don't use or distribute disk-based versions of TOS 1.4.

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
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