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From: kmm2765@isc.rit.edu (K.M. Mosiejczuk )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 2.0
Summary: Can you say redundant?
Keywords: What is your point?
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.214150.15032@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 21:41:50 GMT
References: <90311.172547PHB100@psuvm.psu.edu> <90311.201626MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET> <1990Nov15.144731.18865@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1990Nov15.144731.18865@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes the same thing as:
>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.
>>
>
[rehash of previous paragraph deleted]

Honestly, is there any reason why you posted your message. I deleted
your part simply because it was the same as the previous. And just to
put my $.02 in, ROM based OSes have many merits. First of all, the STs
with ROM based TOS can also run disk based versions of the same thing.
Perhaps atari could be nice enough release old TOS versions on disk. I
had a friend who fried his TOS ROMs (I don't know how) and he was still
ale to use his computer by using a disk-based TOS. As for the how many
times a day do you turn on or off your system: **News Flash** Not
everyone has a hard drive!! Rebooting is very standard for people with
floppy drives. Also, if you were to reload the 
"old" system on your Macs, I am sure you would reinstall it on the hard
drive. That would involve first digging out the old disk (assuming you
still have it) and then going through the install process. I could
personally reinstall the old ROMs in about ten minutes, about the same
time I am sure it would take you to restore your old software OS. I
don't see any advantages in that.