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From: carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MegaSTe info, now TOS 2.05
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Date: 6 Feb 91 14:59:41 GMT
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Writes:

  This is an inevitable question, so I will ask it. How about having TOS 2.05
available for the older ST's, in both six and two chip sets (I have an early
520 now plus,  with the six chip set). It sure would be a major improvement
over TOS 1.0 and would be worth the investment. 
  Atari?, I know you are busy with all these excellent new products, perhaps
your manufacturing facilities are too busy now, but this would be an excellent
thing to do, make a lot of us older customers happy.

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First of all the new TOS is too large to fit into the 192K ROM address
space with the old ROM chip sets.

Secondly, lots of the extra baggage in the new tos would be quite
useless, if not impossible to implement on the old ST's/MEGA machines.

If I was you, I would push for the new desktop.  Its grand.  I never thought
I would actualy like my desktop...but I do now!  (Kisses and Hugs):)
(I daily clean my screen from lip prints) :) :)

--Gregory