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From: dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FOLDRxxx.PRG and ROM-TOS versions
Message-ID: <724@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-May-87 10:18:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.724
Posted: Fri May  8 10:18:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 01:13:39 EDT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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> I analyzed FOLDRxxx.PRG and found that it does *not* fix the TOS bug.
> It adds a number of system blocks as AHDI.PRG and GEMBOOT.PRG does, but
> without any drive logging this does only delay the system crash.

The <expletive inserted> who pirated FOLDRxxx.PRG from Atari neglected
to include three other files intended to be distributed with the
software.  (There are three programs, plus one file containing
documentation which carefully explains just what the limitations of
the folder adder are).

> 
> Nevertheless this small program was disclosing that there exists (at least)
> 4 different ROM-TOS versions with following release dates:
>   11/20/1985
>   02/06/1986
>   04/24/1986
>   06/01/1986
> 
> I should be glad if someone of ATARI (Neil ?) would comment the differences
> and the bug fix status of these TOS releases.

The different dates are for various international versions of TOS;
they differ only in keyboard mapping and the text for resources.

-- 
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corporation	       {sun,amdcad,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer
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