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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The TT isn't late!
Message-ID: <2829@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 29 May 90 19:39:38 GMT
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Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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kacovert@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:

>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.

The difference is: The Amiga OS has been 020-compatible since V1.0, if not
030-compatible. The same holds true for the Mac OS which has been 020/030-
compatible for a long time. TOS, however, has had to be adapted to the 68030
because of its short-sighted design in previous versions. Moreover, we have
heard about the TT since 1988; and it has been announced to appear RSN
since early 1989. In contrast, Commodore didn't announce anything about
the Amiga3000 until now; even at the CeBIT 1990, they didn't tell the
press anything about it. One month later, the machine simply was THERE.


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