Re: Atari ST Emulator for Amiga

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From: Scott Flinn
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 18:15

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In article <55.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>In article <1234@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> pa1329@sdcc13.ucsd.edu writes:
>>(From comp.sys.amiga)
>>In article <12803@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>>>               It requires a bootable TOS disk to get started - I presume
>>>this includes TOSbench, or whatever they call it. (TOS disks can be purchased
>>>from local Atari dealers, if you've got one.)
>>
>>Atari, what is your comment on this?   I wonder how can TOS be sold
>>on disk to non-Atari owners?
>
>This is certainly no worse than ST or Amiga owners buying Macintosh ROMs for
>Spectre or Amax.  What makes the ST specially inviolate?

The difference, as I have been lead to believe it, is that Mac owners
can buy Mac ROMs from Apple dealers.  ST owners cannot buy disk based
TOS from ANYWHERE.  Am I wrong?  Where CAN I buy it?

Cheers,
Scott
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From: wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari ST Emulator for Amiga
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Date: 10 Oct 89 18:15:15 GMT
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