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In article <steveg.89oct3160123@narnia.com.com>, steveg@com.com (stephen harold goldstein) writes:
> 
> I recently had a local dealer install TOS 1.4 into my Mega 4.
> Thanks for any info you can provide.  My dealer will remain nameless until I
> know the facts.  If he's selling illegal copies I'd like to know (and I'm
> sure Atari would too...).

Well, my feeling is that Atari has really dropped the ball on the release of
TOS 1.4!! There have been 'illegal' versions of TOS 1.4 floating around for
weeks now!! And the illegal copies have fixes in them for several bugs in the
offical Atari TOS 1.4 release EPROMs (or ROMs). For example, TOS 1.4 has a bug
in the Serial IO code which has been fixes by an industrious hacker way up 
North!! And the hacker had to show it to Atari in order for ATari to fix it.
And Atari's fix was a patch program that you need to load in your auto
folder. So, already, before you can even buy a legit copy of TOS 1.4, you need
to start loading in patches!! Sounds a lot like TOS 1.0 and TOS 1.2 doesn't it??

And you can't BUY TOS 1.4 in FAST EPROMs to be used with Fast Tech's Turbo16
16 MHZ board. If you could get TOS 1.4 in 100 ns EPROMS, T16 could run even
faster when accessing the TOS code. But, try to buy TOS 1.4 in fast eproms. Ha!!

So, TOS 1.4 is getting spread and ATari is losing sales simply because they don't
know how to market the upgrade!!!

And you have to wonder how a company that can't even distribute an OS upgrade
can market an multi-tasking multi-windowm multi-user super fast workstation
like the TT!! Ha again!!!

I am going to keep my Mega ST4 and my 520ST but it will be snowing in Phoenix
in July before you see me buying a TT. Lack of support from Atari is why!!

I just wish that Atari would release the source code to TOS and let the hackers
support the darn thing!! It couldn't be worse then the non-support that Atari
provides now!!!

Richard (Proud Owner of a Souped Up T16ized Mega ST4!!!) Covert