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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
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Subject: Re: TOS 2.0
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Date: 15 Nov 90 14:47:31 GMT
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In article <90311.201626MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET> MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET writes:
>To those people complaining about taking 20-45 seconds to book a hard
>disk based system:
>
>   HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO TURN YOUR COMPUTER ON EACH DAY?  I
>usually turn mine on in the morning and off at the end of the WORK
>day.  I think it's well worth waiting the extra seconds to boot for
>the convenience and flexibility of switching operating systems.
>I don't need to bring my Mac IIci to the dealer just to upgrade to a
>new OS.  And if there's a problem with the new OS, I can always just
>easily reload the old system back.
>

I agree completely.  Honestly, how many times does an average person
power up and down in a day?  It simply isn't worth the hassle of a
ROM based OS to save you a few seconds once or twice a day.  Marcelino
brings up another good point that you can always go back to the old
OS if you have to (in case it breaks your favorite software or whatever)
just by reloading it to your hard drive or by using something like
Apple's system switcher.  ST users would have to open up their machines
and carefully pry out the TOS1.X ROMs and carefully put the old ones
back in and then re-assemble the machine.  A MAJOR pain in the ass if
you ask me.

>Regards,
>Marcelino Bernardo
>mbernar@erenj.bitnet

Cheers,

Chris

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