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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS in ROM?
Message-ID: <1711@hao.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:31:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 24 13:31:23 1985
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> 	From InfoWorld, August 26, 1985:
> 	
> 	OPERATING SYSTEMS RUSHED
> 	...
> 	Both computer companies [Commodore & Atari] say they will
> eventually perfect their operating systems and manufacture read-only
> memory (ROM) chips, for which slots exist inside the machines, and
> begin shipping the computers with ROM-based operating systems as soon
> as they are available. Neither company will say, however, when those
> ROMs will be ready.
> 	...
Hmmmn.  Does this mean that only the "first rev" production will have the
writable control store, and that if you ever expect to have control over
your operating system you'll have to right off hop on your horse and get
down there in time for a first edition, and then have to eat proto bugs
for the rest of your Amiga's life?  Ah, Silane-ware at its grandest...
								     Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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