Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: official tos 1.4 release Message-ID: <2097@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 12 Oct 89 05:00:12 GMT References: <460c4f58.14a1f@force.UUCP> <2074@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <46207fa0.14a1f@force.UUCP> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 35 In article <46207fa0.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes: >Greg, the problem is one of timing. By the time Atari got the TOS 1.4 PROMs >out, and notice that they are PROMS not ROMs, bugs had already been identified >and repaired by hackers. Since, the offical TOS ROMs still haven't been released, >it is not unreasonable to hope that Atari would fix the known bugs before releasing >them. What if they had already had the ROMs in production, and it was too late to change them? Did you ever ASK if this were so, or did you just charge out and say Atari was a bunch of idiots? No wonder they don't answer your postings. >> Or, a user sees TOS14PATCH.ARC on his BBS, and wonders if he's >> supposed to run it or not. It's vastly easier to have all TOS ROMS >> distributed for a long time be the same, and for all users to need the >> same patch program. This is the only philosophy that makes sense for a >> home machine. Atari isn't Sun. > >Greg, the user already needs an auto folder patch for the TOS 1.4 that is being >sold by Atari. How many more patches will be needed over the next six months?? Well, ALL tos 1.4 users use the same patch. I assume that Atari, being fairly smart people, will arrange it so that if future patches are needed, it will still be one file. This is much simpler ("Get this one latest patch file") then worrying if you have TOS 1.4a or 1.4b or 1.4c and having to get the right patch for each version. All in all, it's much easier to support one rom for which you're supposed to have one patch file, than 14 different versions and 14 different patch files. ------ Greg Lindahl gl8f@virginia.edu I'm not the NRA.