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From: conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Disk drives
Message-ID: <5208@eecae.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 06:58:43 GMT
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Reply-To: conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin)
Organization: Michigan State Univ., Engineering, E. Lansing
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Keywords: Sparta was there
Summary: Why not SpartaDOS?

Speaking of the XF551, can anyone at Atari tell me why they didn't ship
SpartaDOS with the XF551? It's _easily_ the best thing out for an 8 bit,
(I resist temptation here to list the massive numbers of Sparta
features I have seen) And already supports hard drives (a growing
commonality, at least around here.) Did anyone contact ICD? Or wouldn't
ICD go for it, or what?

Maybe it's just that old wishful thinking. But it's not all just
wishful! I have a new 256K+ based typsetting program on my detroit
board! And am beta-testing a multitasking Atari OS (yes. Stop. Back up 8
words. "multitasking.") Extended memory support is HERE!

Terry Conklin
ihnp4!msudoc!conklin
conklin@cps.msu.edu
Club II Detroit (313) 334-8877   (a tad large for net, I think.)