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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 now available
Message-ID: <1525@atari.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 18:50:43 GMT
References: <8906011537.AA09555@oh.cs.wm.edu> <8615@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <8615@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
> My small contribution: it is my understanding that the TOS 1.4 ROMS now
> being made available to developers are PROMS.  My years of study of Murphy's
> law have left the twin beliefs that masks are always a little bit wrong, and
> that no matter what the specification was, the masked ROM is the standard.

I don't follow your reasoning.  If we ship PROMS, it's because they are
bytewise identical to the pattern we started with.  That pattern is the
same one we sent to the ROM manufacturer, and we won't accept the ROMs
unless they're identical to that, too.  Furthermore, if the masks are "a
little bit wrong," the PROMs might not work at all, and we wouldn't ship
that either.  So what's the problem with PROMS?

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