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From: RiddCJ@computer-science.birmingham.ac.UK (Chris Ridd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Who owns the ROM code?
Message-ID: <8912101337.aa07879@benjamin.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>
Date: 10 Dec 89 13:37:42 GMT
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In digest #770 Richard Covert writes:
>In article <8912061211.aa03001@benjamin.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>,
> RiddCJ@computer-science.birmingham.ac.UK (Chris Ridd) writes:
>>For a fairly simple enhancement to GEM, how about allowing more windows, like
>>16, instead of the current meagre 8?
>
> {stuff deleted}
> ... Added such features would increase the size of the ROM code.
>
> In fact, I would rather that Atari incorporate your suggestions into the TT.

  My point was Richard, that the enhancement could be easily made IMHO and
would improve life on the basic STs.  Adding such features would NOT increase
the size of the ROM code, but would eat at a little RAM (how much RAM does
GEM need for a window, by the way? can't be more than a couple of 100 bytes)

  TOS '030 has a limited future in my book, with the release of a real Unix
TT with X-Windows (or something) sometime in the 90's.  As we've heard before,
a multi-tasking TOS is probably out of the question.

>Hey, I like MS WRITE!!! I bought it a year ago and for the few letters that
>I write MS WRITE is fine.

  I agree!  Lots of people don't have working copies of Write here in the UK
although I do.  Nice design.  Shame Microsoft didn't sell Atari the sources,
just the binaries...

     Chris

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