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From: mrose@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
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Date: 8 Aug 90 21:23:04 GMT
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In article <2080@wn1.sci.kun.nl> ge@phoibos.cs.kun.nl (Ge Weijers) writes:
>david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
>
>>In the August 1990 issue of Start magazine there is an article
>>called "Multitasking On The ST".  In this article Frank Foster
>>from Atari Corp. is quoted as saying that Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
>>"[work] but not very well" and that all current multitasking
>>systems for the ST are "kludges".
>
>Cheer up. The same can be (and is) said about TOS. TOS is the biggest kludge
>I've seen to date. If TOS had not been in ROM somebody would have written a
>better replacement long ago. A little more staff for an essential part of the
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why doesn't a third party company make a replacement TOS?
I wouldn't mind loading up a new ROM from disk, it would be a lot better than
loading a whole bunch of patchs and little improvement programs.  Micro RTX
should be built in standard.  Neodesk should be the standard desktop.
Why doesn't Atari just hire some of the third party developers to work on 
the ROMs.  We could have the Code Heads optimizing it and put in a new
version of G+Plus that supports ultrascript fonts.  If people want the 
OS to be on ROM, burn it into a Cartridge.  It holds 128k, and I am
pretty sure that if the ROMs were optimized a bit they could fit it all 
in there, if not it could bank select the extra memory.

Atari should get off there butt and give us some decent ROMs!  The TT better
come with a really improved TOS, but it will most likely be the same old 
ROMs just modified to run on a 030.  Oh, well. :(

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>
>Ge' Weijers
>Ge' Weijers                                    Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl
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take care!

Michael Rose