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From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MegaSTe info, now TOS 2.05
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.012300.15467@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:23:00 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.145941.905@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
> Zeitgeist Busters!
> UUCP: {crash tcnet}!orbit!pnet51!schaper
> INET: schaper@pnet51.orb.mn.org
> 
> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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

Well I would think it was posible, for one thing Compile the code with
a better Compiler, (Turbo 'C') Plus take all the redundent code out, like I
Love so and so, plus all the repeated Text that I have found, Why not Pack
the Text (RLL)?, go have a view at the TOS Roms and see what I meen..There
is also a reported Game in TOS 1.6.
-- 
Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...