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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Inevitable 1.4 Rom Problem
Message-ID: <7711@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 00:02:46 GMT
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On 5 Jan 90 15:54:19 GMT you said:
>
>I have always wondered why the kickstart ROMs weren't packaged
>in one of those cartridge doodahs.  Were cartridges considered
>and rejected for some design reason, or were they not considered
>at all?  Opening the box to replace ROMs each time the operating
>system is upgraded has always seemed suboptimal to me.
>
>
     Ik.  I would not want my low level OS on a cartridge!  You work with
 the current version of it and forget about it.  This leads to custom
 kickstarts and a totally non-standard OS!  Let's make a full report of
 programs that break with new versions of AmigaDOS and hardware!  We can
 then all write them nasty letters and taunt them a second time!

     I mused once that I'd like to see Commodore come out with a version
 of AmigaDOS that will work fine with all properly written programs,
 but is guarenteed to break for all improperly written ones.  Just to piss
 these people off!

     More seriously, I would like to create a list of software that doesn't
 work properly with various hardware/software combinations.  What say?

>Regards,
>
>--
>Will Bralick                          |  ... when princes think more of
>     bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu       |  luxury than of arms, they lose
>     bralick@gondor.cs.psu.edu        |  their state.
>with disclaimer;  use disclaimer;     |             - Niccolo Machiavelli

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