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In article <4381@shlump.nac.dec.com>, powers@cim1ni.dec.com (Bill Powers) writes:
> In article <1660@atari.UUCP>, kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
> > 
> > Available now at a dealer near you.  And if it isn't, please WRITE A LETTER
> > to Atari Corp. asking why Rainbow TOS isn't available at your dealer.
> > -- 
> >    |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
> >    |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
> >   / | \  #include <disclaimer>
> 
>     Not at my dealer in New Hampshire, he laughed, and said that he won't
> have any more direct dealings with atari till they stop sending him bills
> every month for stuff, that he never bought from them.

I spoke to Gail Johnson (software development coordinator at Atari) after
seeing Ken's note.  Mask programmed roms are not presently offered to
developers (PROMS are still offered on the same terms as before).  Atari
can not presently fill an order for a Mega 2 containing TOS 1.4 ROMs.  On
the other hand, I think it's a fair conclusion from Ken's posting that at
least sample quantities of production TOS 1.4 ROMs have been delivered to
Atari.  That is encouraging, but it makes me impatient.
   On a related subject: a German friend who isn't on usenet tells me that
the Atari people at Duesseldorf were very clear in asserting that they
intend to have everything available to the public within 3 months of its
official first showing.  That would mean Portfolio and Stacy are a little
overdue, and they mean to be selling ST-Es and TTs before Christmas.  The
people he talked to sounded about as serious as possible about that 3
months after introduction stuff.  He also says he wants one of the portable 
game machines.
                                        Steve J.