Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unisoft!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS Message-ID: <148@bdt.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 89 16:30:37 GMT References: <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <124635@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA Lines: 16 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? In the front page article of the November 1988 ST Informer ("Sig Hartmann apologizes, promises better Atari support in the future" by Rod McDonald), Atari VP, Sig Hartmann is quoted as saying "Developers should write more software, they'll make jillions." Rainbow TOS must have something to do with this mythical pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow that Atari is always talking about. -- David Beckemeyer (david@bdt.UUCP) | "Lester Moore - Four slugs from a .44 Beckemeyer Development Tools | no Les, no more." 478 Santa Clara Ave. Oakland, CA 94610 | - Headstone at Boot Hill UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax}!unisoft!bdt!david | Tombstone, AZ