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From: csch@tub.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: RE: Drive C as RAMDISK - (nf)
Message-ID: <49500001@tub.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 18:45:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 18:45:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 22:25:46 EST
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Nf-From: tub!csch    Feb 24 00:45:00 1987

munch .......... blech - rotten food ...

Ok! Listen, Simon - I would send ATARI a little box, with something ,,ticking''
in it (you can see what I mean every time you produce a bus-error) ... 
... if they change the next ROM-version (if there will ever be one ...) so that
it won't load desk-accesories and desktop.inf from drive C.

---> BECAUSE:

Due to a bug in the us-version of the TOS-ROMs (I think it's only ,,a bit'')
this version WON'T boot a hard-disk - so, I agree with you - it wouldn't make
sense to load the above named files from c: . 

---> BUT:

I've got my 60MB-Supra BOOTING for over 1/2 a year now !!! And I like it
this way ... 'cause I never had any serious problems ...

Thus IT MAKES SENSE, because loading something from a SUPRA-Drive (I don't
know the performance of ATARI-drives ...???!!!...) is MUCH FASTER, than
loading it from a 354 or 314 ... 

Rgds.

Clemens


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