Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Seeking the new TOS
Message-ID: <923@mks.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 19:42:40 GMT
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Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <954@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>, greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) writes:
> In article <719@dutrun.UUCP> reeuwijk@duteelb.UUCP (C.van Reeuwijk) writes:
> >If TOS 1.4 is available for ROM, why don't you (someone at Atari that
> >is) submit it to the Atari binaries newsgroup?
> ... every program
> which runs on it could be adversely affected by a bad EPROM or a bad
> installation.

I don't think every ST user who wants TOS 1.4 is going to have a dealer
install the new ROMs anyway, so what's the difference? Either they'll be
installing real ROMs, or they'll be installing EPROMS made from a binary
from the net.  As long as the EPROM contains the correct data, and that
can be verified by a CRC or checksum, the net effect is the same. 

However, while it may be an interesting exercise, I don't expect Atari
to post TOS 1.4 anyway.  I don't think I would.  There may be lots of
side affects, such as some legal ramifications to posting a copyrighted
piece of code.
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