Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!chinet!saj
From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68030 box, Cringely, Comdex
Summary: This sounds great, but may I read between the lines?
Message-ID: <6888@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 Nov 88 22:53:44 GMT
References: <6879@chinet.chi.il.us> <1213@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1213@atari.UUCP>, good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
    [Answering a question about TOS 1.4]
> ROMs are on quite long lead times. Naturally, we have to do ROMs for
> production. However, depending on demand (which I expect will be quite high)
> we may offer One-Time-PROM [OTP] kits, which I'd like to have include the
> RAM-loadable version for those who want to experiment with it before
> going to an 'approved service center' to have the ROMs changed.
> Roy Good/Atari

I'd certainly be interested in an early crack at trying TOS 1.4, and I
strongly suspect that a lot of sensitive users would regard this as a chance
to try the new version to be sure it wouldn't break their important 
applications before commiting to it.  I trust we may take the remark about
going to 'an approved service center' as meaning that the upgrade will be
done in the field without the necessity of returning the machine to Atari.
   I am a bit disappointed at the lack of an assertion that 'Atari will be
in a position to announce the timing for availability of TOS 1.4 within
at most x number of weeks'.  I had the impression that results from the
second round of beta testing were pretty much in, and that's frequently 
enough to justify making a pretty good schedule.