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From: eezprandolin@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <5001@qut.edu.au>
Date: 6 Sep 89 21:03:28 GMT
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In article <1673@atari.UUCP>, kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
> clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) writes:
> 
> | In article <1660@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
> | >
> | >Available now at a dealer near you.  And if it isn't, please WRITE A LETTER
> | >to Atari Corp. asking why Rainbow TOS isn't available at your dealer.
> 
> | Well, if Atari got off it's toosh and came up to the North East and
> | SIGNED UP SOME DEALERS, we might have somewheres to get 1.4, not to
> | mention other trivial things like computer, and monitors, and the such.
> 
> | No flame at you specifically, but I just thought it was a funny paradox.
> | Going to places that don't exist for things that haven't been released
> | yet.
> 
>   I apologise for any problems my precipitous comments may have caused.
> My intent was to get people _going_ to their dealers to ask about the
> Rainbow TOS upgrade, so that their dealers would start ordering them
> from Atari.  I want to get this upgrade out there!!!  So much so, that
> I may have jumped the chain of command a bit too far on this one.
> 
>   The fact remains that Rainbow TOS ROMs should be available to dealers
> NOW.  Sam Tramiel said on the GEnie live conference last night that
> they were.  He also said that we will be announcing a method later in
> the week whereby people who don't have dealers nearby can get the upgrade.
> I don't know the details of that, it hasn't been worked out in detail yet,
> but as soon as details are available, we'll let you know.
> 
comments deleted
> 
> -- 
>    |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
>    |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
>   / | \  #include <disclaimer>

OZ Atari obviously don't know about this yet :-) .... 
Do THEY have net access ?

After putting up with ( Read: working around ) bugs 
( ala fileselector 200 file, redirection, pexec, numerous gem bugettes )
not to mention the WOEFUL HD Performance (only JUST beats an amiga )
I would like TOS 1.4

Atari Oz will probably have them about 6 months AFTER I get them from 
somewhere (US)   

Ps. I am trying to register as a developer  ( Have some hardware to sell )
Atari Sydney is not interested or Just SLOW so I haven't heard back yet.
Does anyone know who the right person is to talk to (mail) ?


PPS. Tos 1.3 Pexec time is roughly proportional to the amount of memory 
     that is in the system ( I suspect this is because TOS is fond of zero-
     ing memory for applications) is there a workaround for this ?


               BOB { stay tuned, same BAT Group same BAT net }