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From: neil@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: News From Hannover Messe
Message-ID: <626@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 13:45:49 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.626
Posted: Tue Mar 10 13:45:49 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Mar-87 20:29:01 EST
References: <921@ark.cs.vu.nl> <1347@husc6.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg
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Keywords: SmallTalk - Sampler - MultiTasking - Upgrades

In article <1347@husc6.UUCP>, grunau_b@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Justin J. M. Grunau) writes:
> In article <921@ark.cs.vu.nl> Patrick@ark.cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) writes:
> >I just returned from a loooong and very tiring visit to the
> >Hannover Messe.
> >  Leonard told
> >  me Atari's still thinking about what to do with the
> >  current buggy ROM's. If the blitter's installed, new
> >  ROM's come with it. But what to do with people that don't
> >  want the blitter? Up to marketing, Leonard said.
> 		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> if Patrick Van Kleef is correctly reporting Mr. Tramiel's remarks, then we are
> to infer from this that THERE IS ACTUALLY A POSSIBILITY THAT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT
> WANT BLITTERS MAY NOT GET DEBUGGED ROMS FOR THEIR 1040S!
> 
> If it is to turn out that the above remark -- that the decision to provide
> ROMs to non-blitter customers will be left up to the whims of "marketing" --
> is in fact not correct, then great.

Don't worry too much about this remark.  In my experience, the humble
Marketing department has never had much say in decisions regarding ROM
upgrades.  This is usually simply a delaying tactic while the engineering
types make up their minds.

Currently, there is a strong likelihood that there are 2 ROM revs in our
not-too-distant future:

1. Blitter ROMs ... for those who upgrade to blitter chip only.  Timing for
delivery should be in Spring '87

2. New improved ROMs ... for everyone, blitter or no, incorporating many
additional fixes, speedups, and improvements over the current ROMs and the
blitter ROMs.  Timing for delivery -- later on :-).

Please folks, relax.  We really are aware of the problems and working on a
solution.

-- 
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