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From: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Question on processor expansion
Message-ID: <176@molihp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 12:35:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: molihp.176
Posted: Thu Jun 26 12:35:11 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jun-86 04:44:54 EDT
References: <8606201839.AA06129@pavepaws> <477@elmgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Organization: Moli Energy, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
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In article <477@elmgate.UUCP> jdg@elmgate.UUCP writes:
> ... Still I'd pay another $50-$75 to get a new version of
>TOS in ROM (2.0 ?).  No, this is not rumored.  I just want Atari to know if
>they ever WERE to decided to re-write some of TOS/GEMDOS themselves (and
>get it right) instead of DRI's junk, *I'd* be willing to pay for it.
>

  I, too, would pay more money to get rid of a few problems.  It was not
great to get the TOS in ROM and try my favorite  bug-hunting  procedures
only to find most of the bugs  still  there.  It was  great to  liberate
that  memory,  and it was well  worth  the cost to get the quick  reboot
time, but there are still  bugs  there.  Hell, I/O  redirection  doesn't
even  work  sometimes  now.  And I agree it  would  be great  to get the
ability to drop a 68010 in there.  (I'll  wait  awhile for the '020 :  I
heard yesterday that it is priced at $530 CDN for the 12.5 Mhz part.)

  BTW, anybody got a definitive list of bugs in TOS?

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