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From: jansen@atari.UUCP (Mark O. Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 vs NEODESK and UIS-II
Message-ID: <1383@atari.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 89 03:47:21 GMT
References: <418@ultb.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <418@ultb.UUCP>, clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) says:
> 
> I'd KILL to have TOS 1.4 in my machine to fix all the nasties I've got
> now.  But I will never see it in my machine (assuming Atari's track
> record for upgrading older machines doesn't change).


Everything I have heard has said that Atari _is_ planning to make TOS 1.4
available to owners of existing machines.  TOS 1.4 is a very different
animal than the 4/22/87 ROMs.  The main point of 4/22 ROMs was the support
for the BLiTTER.  TOS 1.4, on the other hand, is a significant upgrade even
_without_ a blitter; it makes sense to make it available to everyone.



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