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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The TT isn't late!
Message-ID: <15375@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 May 90 03:39:50 GMT
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Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <1462.266237b4@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> kacovert@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>Cut Atari some slack about the TT!!!!
     I agree in some ways; though I agree that it is well and firmly late,
it won't do any good to whine about it, plus, this might mean that they're
planning on releasing it:
     1) When it's damn well ready, and
     2) Not one minute before.
     Better late than buggy.
>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.
     The Amiga 2500/30 (the first Amiga with a 68030) has been out and
commonly available for many months. All versions of AmigaDOS will utilize
the capabilities of the 68030 (with the exception of the "calculator"
programme in ye old version 1.1. It would blow up. Some people's
kids... :-) )
     What you're talking about is AmigaDOS V2.0, which revamps the look
of Workbench dramatically and adds a whole list of goodies that nobody
on this list could possibly care less about. :-)
>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.
     Most of the Apple and Amiga operating systems are also in ROM.
>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.
     Actually, it's neither, as long as you socket the silly things. It's
really rather quick and easy - and certainly simpler than reformating and
reinstalling one's hard drive, as SOME people's changes in operating system
have more or less required (we don't need to mention any companies now, do
we? Even if their initials start with I or M....) :-)
                                                  - R'ykandar.
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