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- From: meulenbr@prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon question: is 640x480x8 mode memory-mapped?
- Message-ID: <meulenbr.714814265@cstw168>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 07:31:05 GMT
- References: <9897@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1992Aug23.051509.772@ardvar.moundst.mn.org> <1992Aug25.092312.22169@cs.ruu.nl>
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- piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
- >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.
-
- Strange.
- To me an atari rep said that they hoped to ship the falcon directly with
- multitos. He was not 100 % sure if they could make it though.
- In the falcon multitos is partly in rom and partly disk based.
- The TT multitos will be a fully disk based.
- (still according to this atari person).
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- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@prl.philips.nl)
- Philips Research Laboratories
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