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From: kacovert@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: The TT isn't late!
Message-ID: <1462.266237b4@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 29 May 90 13:49:56 GMT
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Cut Atari some slack about the TT!!!!

Sure, the TT isn't out yet.  But neither is the Mac '030 line, really.  Sure,
the machine's out.  But the OS isn't.  The OS that's running on the Mac's
currently doesn't use any of the features of the 030.  The first OS that will
take advantage of these features won't be released until this fall - about
the same time the TT is going to be released.

Sure the Amiga 3000 is out with an 030 and I believe they have a true 030 OS
with it.  But I don't know of anywhere that the common user can buy one yet.
They're just not available yet.

So, you might be asking, why hasn't Atari released the TT like everyone else
and then finished the OS later (just like Mac did).  The reason is simple.
Atari's philosophy is to put the OS in ROM, not to load it in off of disk.
This architecture has some real advantages which I won't discuss here.  Anyway,
this causes the small problem that the OS must be finished before they can 
release the machine, because replacing the ROM chips for all users is both
a pain and infeasible.

So, my point is, when you get down to it, everyone's 030 machines are going
to be coming out at approximately the same time.  Just give Atari a chance.


						Kent Covert
						Miami University
						Oxford, Ohio
						(Miami's in Ohio, Dammit!)