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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT TT/X specs (rumour?)
Keywords: Chapel Perilous
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Date: 7 Nov 88 20:55:07 GMT
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In article <4494@boulder.Colorado.EDU> (Brian Walker) writes:
> On the ST, TOS uses the line-F for internal calls.  But that can be
> changed in any revision of TOS because those calls are "subject to
> change without notice." That, of course, means that Atari may, at their
> choosing, write a TOS/GEM implimentation for a 68020 system by moving
> the line-F calls and performing some basic rewrites to facilitate
> operation on a 68020.
>Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder|| printf("Say please:] \n");

Hmm, this leads to two questions. 

One, has TOS 1.4 fixed this problem ? If it has then the Atari folks might
get in on the 68020 bandwagon that that Amiga folks have been riding for
some time. There is even a PD PC board that converts the 68000 socket to
a 68020 + 68881 socket. Bringing the number of '020 conversion products
up to 5 (Ronin, CSA, Hurricane, Commodore, PD). 

Two, if not could it be made part of 1.5 or is the rewrite such that it
would have to wait until 2.0. Has the '030 project carried TOS with it
or is it a UNIX-only box?


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