Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!etelree
From: etelree@dutrun.UUCP (C. van Reeuwijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.6 and the 68030
Keywords: TOS 1.6, 68010
Message-ID: <1071@dutrun.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 21:16:27 GMT
References: <1149@crash.cts.com> <1952@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: etelree@dutrun.UUCP (C.van Reeuwijk)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <1952@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>Don't you think that if the STE were completely 68030 compatible, and
>Atari could support it, that Atari would be crowing about that fact? 
>   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)

And 68010 compatibility of TOS 1.6? I know, it is not such an improvement
as a '30, but one might get a faster ST, and it may work.
Any comments from Atari on this?

An while I'm at the subject: could Atari release details about the
programming of the STE? I would love to get one if I could use its
extended possibilities. Sorry, I can't afford to become I registered
developer for this. I am just hacking on the Atari as a hobby, and
the required $100 or $200 is just too big a dent in my budget for that.

In my opinion there are a *lot* of ST users who would like to get the
real info on the ST instead of the unreliable books that are sold
today. Thus, I strongly disagree with Ken (was it Ken?) who thinks that
there would be no market for this. After all, since there has been
little advertising of the ST, ST owners tend to be people who know the
field, and know that a bad ST is better than a good mess-dos machine.
(This is not a flame to Ken, just a difference of opinion.)

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