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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga (really Atari vs. Amiga)
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Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 15:20:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 22 15:20:46 1987
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In a previous article, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> 	Ha ha ha he he He ha Heh He.
> 	Have you taken a look at the Atari-St Newsgroup lately?  Look closely,
> C-A, this is *exactly* why you should not put your OS into ROM.
> 				-Matt

But Matt they don't have the nifty SetFuncion() call nor the RomTagsInRam
stuff that makes little fixes easy. With a "Rom conversion" to 1.2 and
the Additional 256K ram you get out of it (your WCS becomes fast ram)
You can put simple changes for the ROM into RAM. With the proper Tags 
the ROM will pick them up as replacements for its internal routines.
Really an elegant compromise. (You can even go back an load your 1.1
Kickstart to run brain damaged EA programs, but I don't think it will
be write protected then. It is the Atari (publicly stated) we have
better things to do than fix bugs in the Rom attitude that is killing
them.

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