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Article #39248Re: TOS 1.4 now available
From: Allan Pratt
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 18:50
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 18:50
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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? ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sun!imagen!atari!apratt 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 Lines: 16