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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: OS-9/ST in ROM (was Re: The IBM emulator (R.I.P.))
Message-ID: <295@mks.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 09:44:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.295
Posted: Wed Sep  2 09:44:40 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 06:41:46 EDT
References: <42@bnl.UUCP> <1468@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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Summary: shouldn't be hard to do

In article <1468@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>, bryan@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Bryan Ivey) writes:
> I agree!  Bring on the documentation and something closer to the Unix /
> Xenix / OS9 type operating system, Atari!  OS9 in ROM (drool, drool)!
> 
> Bryan Ivey

I mentioned the same thing to one of the people at Microware, but his
response was that it was much easier to update, etc, if booted from
disk. However, given the modularity of OS-9, and the way ROM'ed modules
are found at boot time, I would think almost anyone could put most of
OS-9 into a ROM cartridge and save some of the RAM for other things.
Even if some of the modules in ROM become outdated, all you have to do
is boot a replacement with a higher revision number. (At least, that
was the case in my very old copy of OS-9 for the 6809 -- is it still
true?)
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