Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com (10/17/90)
I can understand Atari's interest in holding on to its TOS copyrights. If they didn't, Sun and AT&T would probably discard UNIX in favor of TOS, which is such a great operating system. MS-DOS would certainly go away also, as well as AmigaOS. I mean, who wouldn't want a graphical, somewhat buggy OS that can only be expanded by replacing ROMS? ;-))))))
muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers /100000) (10/17/90)
Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com writes: >I can understand Atari's interest in holding on to its TOS copyrights. If >they didn't, Sun and AT&T would probably discard UNIX in favor of TOS, >which is such a great operating system. MS-DOS would certainly go away >also, as well as AmigaOS. I mean, who wouldn't want a graphical, somewhat >buggy OS that can only be expanded by replacing ROMS? Not to defend TOS, but the fact that inly ROMS can be used is a hardware matter, not of TOS. By the way if I could choose I would prefer TOS over MS-DOS for sure. -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht nmutsaer@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands
scott@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) (10/18/90)
>Not to defend TOS, but the fact that inly ROMS can be used is a hardware >matter, not of TOS. >By the way if I could choose I would prefer TOS over MS-DOS for sure. Yeah, what about taking all the old roms and making thoe chip bugs/friends/animals out of them? ``Yo, Amigo, wanna buy a neat chip-creature? We named them TOS...'' But that's most likely illegal too and the chips probably have to be destroyed. -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to <game-design-request@cs.odu.edu> ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
marten@tpki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann) (10/19/90)
In article <kb74Zov0Bwwu03hoQe@transarc.com> Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com writes: >also, as well as AmigaOS. I mean, who wouldn't want a graphical, somewhat >buggy OS that can only be expanded by replacing ROMS? ^^^^^ Wonderful, :-))))), I've bought 1.2 ROMs und 1.4 ROMs -- how much money do I have to spend in the future to get a good OS for my computer? Atari should release this OS as PD and I hope, that we get a good OS by the hackers here in Germany during a the next year. ;-)))))))))) Sometimes I think, I should burn most off my OS-9 OS into my ROMs and remove all the TOS-stuff. Marten Marten Feldtmann, Eckernfoerder Str.83, 2300 Kiel 1, West-Germany DNET/EUNET/USENET/SUBNET: marten@tpki.toppoint.de Please keep your replies short - I have to pay for them