Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!ruunsa!fysaj!muts From: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers /100000) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari Copyrights on TOS ;-) Message-ID: <1650@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> Date: 17 Oct 90 15:39:41 GMT References: Sender: news@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl Lines: 17 Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com writes: >I can understand Atari's interest in holding on to its TOS copyrights. If >they didn't, Sun and AT&T would probably discard UNIX in favor of TOS, >which is such a great operating system. MS-DOS would certainly go away >also, as well as AmigaOS. I mean, who wouldn't want a graphical, somewhat >buggy OS that can only be expanded by replacing ROMS? Not to defend TOS, but the fact that inly ROMS can be used is a hardware matter, not of TOS. By the way if I could choose I would prefer TOS over MS-DOS for sure. -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht nmutsaer@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands