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From: maverick@cl2devy.SGI.COM (Steve Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Room for change
Summary: Go ahead and boot it!!!
Message-ID: <20038@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 88 20:38:52 GMT
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In article <527@nikhefh.hep.nl>, gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek) writes:
> 
> Now if you need more room in the ROMs how about this:
> 
> - Kick the desktop and AES resources out of the rom
> - same goes for the bios keyboard translation tables
> - Even kick out the desktop program itself.
> And supply these on disk, to be read at boot time.
> 

	This is a _great_ idea!  Then puntaes would work again too.  There
would be lots of room in the ROMS for OS and you could put GDOS right in
the AES.  Have you thought about this, Atari?

					--Steve




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