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From: danw@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Daniel E. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: 8 Apr 89 23:54:35 GMT
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In article <8904071506.AA22861@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, USQB015@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
> I've heard talk about TOS 1.4. One of the "little" things about TOS that
> is very annoying is when a program returns to desktop the OS "always" reads
> the disk, even if the disk hasn't changed! Has this been rectified on the
> new TOS or will this little problem be explained away as "necessary" from
> somebody up on these things?

  I usually don't defend Atari being as I don't like them labeling everything
about the ST: TOP SECRET destroy by fire before reading.  There is actually
a good reason for it to read the disk.  

  TOS never knows for sure a disk has changed until it reads it.  Yes,
this is a little strange.

Dan Wilson