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From: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 2.0
Message-ID: <5992@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Nov 90 15:05:35 GMT
References: <182809@<1990Oct25> <46300106@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <46300106@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mts10271@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>[about TOS2.0]
>* In the first place, it's illegal, but in the second, it's got BUGS. You
>* will LOSE FILES.  Things will GO WRONG.  Does this sound like something
>* you want to be using?			   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Nope. So how about TOS 3.0 in a hard drive bootable format. I have said
>it before and other people have said it before- we don't NEED it to be in ROM!
>It would certainly stop the use of TOS 2.0.

This sounds like a good idea. Most people nowadays have at least 1Mb of memory
so a couple of hundred K for TOS should not be bad news. Real machines boot
from hard disk and this will give the ST a standard and easy method of OS
updating. Yes, it will take longer to boot, but the person who switches his
ST on for five minutes then goes away is not really the person who demands a
better TOS (imho).

I don't even have a hard drive but I would consider it a worthwhile expense if
TOS 3.0 were hard disk based.

Whether or not this will happen is, of course, out of the hands of mortal men.

Dave.