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From: felner@inf.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT desktop & prices
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Date: 11 Sep 90 16:27:57 GMT
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In article <7359@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> felner@b.inf.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner) writes:
>In article <2283@atari.UUCP> mui@atari.UUCP (Derek Mui) writes:
>>	We would love to put the new desktop in the above machines. 
>>Unfortunately, we don't have enough ROM space to fit everything together. 
>>Just for your information, the new desktop is 22k bigger than the old one. 
>>Aniway, we may need a little bit more time or even a miracle in order to 
>>squeeze every extra bits into the 192K ROM. We will try!
>
>Well, after all there's a ROM port with an extra 128K of RM address space.
>How about a solution that involves this space? Then you would also have enough 
>space to add GDOS to the TOC ...

Someone just convinced me that it might not be such a good solution to put
it in the ROM port space because of copy protection problems and more. So
how about an official RAM version of the desktop that loads from the auto
folder and replaces the TOC 1.4 desktop? How big is this desktop anyway? If
people are willing to use up RAM for NeoDesk, Gemini and alike, why not for
an official Atari replacement (which I believe is smaller that those other
ones)?

Tomas Felner, felner@inf.ethz.ch