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From: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Where can I get TOS 1.4 (disk version)?
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Date: 14 Jun 90 18:57:05 GMT
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In article <1990Jun14.155316.10045@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes...
>In article <707@hexagon.pkmab.se> daniel@hexagon.pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
>[ why isn't there tos on disk ]
>>And don't tell me it's because of the incorrect versions of TOS that
>>would be spread with disks.  It couldn't be easier to correct: Send out
>>an Atari authorized copy of 1.4.

>And then someone would patch it, and someone would patch the patches,
>and then who would know what we end up with? 

Seems to me that we'd have a situation just like MS-DOS!  Which is 
only available on disk (it's not ROMable -- that's a DR-DOS niche) and
frankly nobody thinks that's so bad.  It even COMES WITH a DEBUG utility 
that lets you patch things.  Horrors to Betsy!

Maybe Tramiel is paranoid that a ROM version would have clone hardware
built to run pirated versions.  He should be so lucky.
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