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From: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: booting off a hard disk.
Message-ID: <1066@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 17:09:07 EST
Article-I.D.: husc6.1066
Posted: Thu Jan 22 17:09:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 09:43:07 EST
References: <942@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <517@atari.UUcp> <176@fornax.uucp>
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Reply-To: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau)
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In article <176@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
  ... {he quotes Mr. Pratt as implying that on his in-house machine he
  ... can boot from HD}
>
>I assume this means Atari hard disks are now being shipped so that they will
>boot up directly without having to load a driver from floppy - if so the
>dealers around here (Vancouver) don't know about it (I went and talked to a
>couple after seeing the above replay from Allan Pratt) - they also seem to
>think the 40 folder limit has been solved by Atari.  ???????


Simply because Mr. Pratt may have an in-house Self-Booting hard disk does by
no means imply that hard disks are being shipped this way.  If they were, I
have every reason to believe that we would have heard this -- and more
significantly, that even a dealer in Vancouver might have had a chance to
have heard this.   It is I would strongly suggest far more likely that the
self-booting capability is purely an Atari-internal phenomenon at this point,
presumably because it is always best to be safe about these things before
releasing them!  When Atari gets around to releasing this capability, I am
sure we will all hear about it, and I am also sure those of us who already
have hard disks will be able to use the new self-booting capabilities, also.
Yelling at Atari is not likely to get us this capability any sooner than
if we just wait for it.

It just doesn't make sense to jump at every vague rumour and clamour for
something that is obviously going to make it to us as soon as it is ready.
This goes for the 40 folder limit, also:  it has been made amply clear that
the limit will be fixed WHEN it gets fixed, and asking at every conceivable
chance if it is fixed yet is not going to get it ready any quicker!

									JJMG

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