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From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Where can I get TOS 1.4 (disk version)?
Message-ID: <1965@electro.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 14:10:45 GMT
References: <3651@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <2212@atari.UUCP> <707@hexagon.pkmab.se> <1990Jun14.155316.10045@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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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? Yes, I can deal with this



huh? MSDOS, i believe, never went through all this, and it was a disk
based OS. I can't see why TOS would behave any differently from MSDOS if
it were distributed on floppy. It would at least allow *FAST* distribution
of updated versions of the OS, which is critical if you want people to believe
that Atari is dedicated to providing decent support in order to make the
ST a "real world" machine.

If Atari would regularly release a disk based TOS with proper bug fixes
as Microsoft did with DOS, then there would be no reason for the above
stated scenario. And hell, if TOS was disk based, then all those STUPID
patches like GDOS wouldn't have to be patches anymore - they could be right
there within the OS where it belongs. hmmpphhh!


just adding more fuel to the fire ...



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