Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!portal!atari!towns
From: towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT desktop & prices
Message-ID: <2299@atari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 13:39:02 GMT
References: <7359@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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in article <7359@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, felner@b.inf.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner) says:
> 
> 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. 
>>Anyway, 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 ROM address space.
> How about a solution that involves this space? Then you would also have enough 
> space to add GDOS to the TOS ...
> 
> Tomas Felner, felner@inf.ethz.ch

There are important applications that use the Cartridge Port. We can 
just take that Port and use it. Also, I think there might be some 
technical problems with this solution as well.. Alan or Derek would 
probably know more about what the ins and outs are of this solution
and why we can't use it..

-- John Townsend 
   Atari Corp.