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Article #3978Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 18:36
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 18:36
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In article <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> (Marcelino Bernardo) writes:
>Recently I have read Ken Badertscher of Atari refer to TOS 1.4 as the
>"Rainbow" TOS. I was just curious. Why was the this name chosen?
I don't know of course but I have some ideas :
Because you can see it but you can't touch it ?
It's Sam's way of promising you that you won't ever be flooded with bogus
product announcements?
It's only visible on very wet days and from certain angles?
Atari bought a bunch of DEC personal computers and this is the
version of TOS that supports them?
I'm sure there are lots of possibilities...
--Chuck McManis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS Message-ID: <124635@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 13 Sep 89 18:36:36 GMT References: <Info-Atari16@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU> <8909081454.AA05183@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21