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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 17:52:23 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Nice idea, but I am not sure how appropriate it would be for the low end.
- There are solutions around for this already but they all can be defeated if you
- try hard enough and I am not sure a hardware solution would make sense.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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