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From: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A little detective work...
Message-ID: <1207@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 00:00:23 GMT
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Reply-To: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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Summary: You bet it's worth it!

In article <21894@cup.portal.com> BUGGS@cup.portal.com (William Edward JuneJr) writes:
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>Being a simple user, I wonder if it's worth it?
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>Ed June

You bet it's worth it!  I've seen TOS 1.4 in action, and there are SO
many nice things in it, and SO many things fixed in it.  I can't see how
anybody would NOT want it!

For example:  Now you can rename folders, you have a MOVE command, disk
reads and writes are faster, windows open up in the RIGHT places, and
you have the keyboard controlled warm/cold resets.

These are just the things that are OBVIOUS!  The stuff you cannot see
that are fixed are NUMEROUS!  No more 40 file folder limit, or 16 meg
partitions, a rewritten GEMDOS, etc.

However, I think $100 is a bit too much.  If Atari wants to get 1.4 out
to people IN MASS, the price of upgrade should be lower.  Also, there
should be a special user-group deal, so a number of them can be
purchased at a reduced cost, with a "qualified" user group member
installing the ROMS.  Hey, the user groups are what have kept Atari
going in the past, so why not reward them with 1.4 at a low price?

Of course, I'm a member of a user's group.........   :^)

Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology | What I like :
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