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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 08:11:29 GMT
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- Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- : : Because YOU have a problem with the 'meat' dept at Wal-Mart doesn't mean
- : : that everyone does. Once again, remove the blinders and look at the global
- : : picture. The name of the game is EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE right now!
-
- : Positive exposure you mean surely. Tossing an a1200 on a counter with the
- : insert disk animation running (typical of a department store display) is not the
- : kind of exposure the amiga needs. In fact I would rather they just keep the
- : computers in the back rather than attempt to display them.
-
- That's why AT needs to make some modifications to the kickstart and RDB
- structure so that the hard drive partitions can be password read & write
- protected. On the demo and novice installation, the boot & Work:
- partitions could be defaulted to read only and HDToolBox wouldn't be
- installed. This would keep people from screwing up the system unless they
- have HDToolBox and passwords.
-
-
- Chris Hall
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