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From: mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions about ST hw/sw upgrades
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Date: 12 Mar 91 03:12:07 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 11-Mar-91 Questions about ST
> hw/sw up.. Jack W. Wine@uhunix1.uhc (2488)

> 6) The SST board is supposed to have TOS 1.6 roms licensed from Atari.
>    With the advent of the versatile 68030, is there any plan to put
>    a different operating system to use?  I've read of the Geos OS by
>    Berkeley Softworks and it seems like a good candidate for porting
>    to the SST030 board.  If 50,000 ST pooled together $20, would that
>    be enough to commission Berkeley Softworks to do the port?  

> 7) Suppose everyone who bought a SST030 board added $20 so that Mr. Small
>    could commission a company to provide a new operating system.  Is this
>    feasible?

Hey Dave Small... Hyper Web, Hyper Web, Hyper Web!!!!!!!!!!!!  (or Mach maybe?)