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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon question: is 640x480x8 mode memory-mapped?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.234720.20428@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 23:47:20 GMT
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- In a previous article, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) says:
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- >>>>>> krs@ardvar.moundst.mn.org (Kent Schumacher) (KS) writes:
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- >KS> And of course Multi TOS comes with the system (Windows 3.1 costs $80.00,
- >KS> and OS/2 costs $150.00 - OS/2 is more comparable to Multi-TOS in terms
- >KS> of memory protection and pre-emptive multitasking).
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- >Eventually, yes. The Falcons on the Atari Messe did not have MultiTOS what
- >I found very disappointing. I asked an Atari rep when MT whas expected and
- >he said somewehere in the beginning of 1993. So the first Falcon will be
- >shipped with the single-tasking TOS. I asked if the upgrade would be on
- >floppy or you would have to buy new ROMS for MT and he didn't know. I think
- >I wait until MT is included before I buy the Falcon.
- >--
- >Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
- >Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- >Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet
- >Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')
- >
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- Didn't Sam Tramiel say on one of the online conferences that Multi-TOS
- would be shipped with the new Falcons?
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- I thought for sure he said it because I was looking for it.
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- Len
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