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In article <3752@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal13.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung) writes:
| In article <8905040321.AA21585@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) writes:
| >Where in the world is the new TOS??? What's the problem Atari?!?
| 
|   According to the April ST Informer, Atari announced at CeBIT that they
| will release TOS 1.4 when it works on _both_ the ST and the upcoming
| Atari TT computer. So if the TT comes out in August (estimated date),
| then so wil TOS 1.4.
| 
|   Can anyone at Atari confirm/refute this statement?

Refute.

It's in the pipeline, people, and it's out of my hands.  I'm one of the
engineer-types here at Atari that turns TOS source code into eproms. 
Since it's out of my hands now, that should tell you something. 

It is most definitely NOT true that we are waiting for TT support before
releasing TOS 1.4.  TOS that runs on the TT will be as compatible as we
can make it, but it will (obviously) be different. 

Registered developers will be able to buy TOS PROMs RSN (and I DO mean
REAL soon); contact jpatton@atari now for details.  Other people will
have to wait until we have actual ROMs manufactured and in distribution
to service centers. 

For the non-techweenies out there, PROM chips are like ROMs, but they
are programmable.  ROMs are cheaper than PROMs because we can make them
cheaply in mass quantities.  However, it takes longer to get the ROMs
manufactured; PROMs can be ordered in (relatively) small lots with
(relatively) fast turnaround from many companies that provide that kind
of service. 

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