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From: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: hardware 'upgrades'
Message-ID: <1348@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 23:53:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  7 23:53:40 1987
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In article <831@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>
>Or, to pick a popular 'right-now' comparison:
>
>My information is that Commodore have explicitly stated that they will
>*not* provide upgrades to ROM for their loyal customers who bought the
>early Amigas with the system on disk.
>
>So, if you're really ticked off at Atari's upgrade policies, sure, go somewhere
>else.  Send me your used ST, cause I think Atari's upgrade policy is no worse
>than any other I've seen the last 20 years.  But you'd be advised to really
>look hard before you leap...


*sigh*  We're not talking about "upgrades".  We're talking about "bug fixes".
The forty folder limit is not an acceptable feature of any machine.  A ROM OS
that has such a bug should be replaced, either free or at a minimal charge.
That is an ENTIRELY separate thing from an UPGRADE!  Enough mixing up of the
two, ok?
grunau@husc4.UUCP

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