Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!apple!agate!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun33!mboen From: mboen@nixdorf.de (Martin Boening) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS 2.0 Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 19:02:46 GMT References: <35495@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@nixpbe.nixdorf.de Lines: 46 In <35495@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: >Concerning whether Atari will ever release TOS 3.0 for lesser machines >than the TT, David Clear writes: >>I don't even have a hard drive but I would consider it a worthwhile expense >>TOS 3.0 were hard disk based. >>Whether or not this will happen is, of course, out of the hands of mortal me > >Actually, of course, it's in the hands of those named "Tramiel".. > >It's not what's "Right", it's not what's "Fair", it's not even what's >"Technically Feasible".. > >It's what will make the most money for those named "Tramiel"... > Therefore this would be the greatest idesa since the invention of .... well of whatever. Just think of the money Microsoft makes with DOS upgrades. DR has jumped on that bandwaggon and is selling a DRDOS upgrade. A diskbased TOS would be just the same: release TOS 3.0 and sell it without having to burn it into ROMS. The fix some bugs and upgrade to TOS 3.1 for a more or less substantial fee. Again, no hassle with ROMS, quick turnout, and many more people would buy it since it's so easy to install. When sales drop of, fix some more or less trivial bugs and upgrade .... And so on and so forth. At the same time make better machines and some day everybody will upgradee anyway for the better performance if the new system is relatively compatible to the old one and runs TOS 3.x. Some day in the future you release TOS 4.0, 5.0, etc. And always there'll be bugs to fix, features to add, upgrades to sell ... And all a lot easier than with ROM based systems. Yeah. Martin PS.: Disclaimer: I hope you don't believe you've seen the above. -- Email: in the USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.com outside USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.de Paper Mail: Martin Boening, Nixdorf Computer AG, SNI STO SI 355, Pontanusstr. 55, 4790 Paderborn, W.-Germany (Phone: +49 5251 146155)