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- From: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 questions
- Message-ID: <721055661.27298@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 13:14:22 GMT
- References: <6167@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Reply-To: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 41
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- In article <6167@tuegate.tue.nl> wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >on monday I will get my ST back with TOS 1.4 instead of TOS 1.0.
- >I know TOS 2.06 is a lot better but this was a lot cheaper.
- >MY question is : what patches do I still need, as there are still some
- >things in TOS 1.4 or 1.04 whatever that need fixing. I understand that
- >I no longer have the 40 folder problem (correct???).
-
- No 40 folder problem. You will need POOLFIX3 or Claus Brod's update of
- POOLFIX3 which was called POOLFIX4, but has had its name changed... There is
- also TOS14FIX, to fix a few other minor problems.
-
- >But what serial port problems do I still have,
-
- You still have those RTS/CTS problems, and problems with driving the serial
- line at high speeds. There are patches to fix these problems on
- atari.archive.
-
- >and what about disk
- >routines? I now have a megafile 60 and normal internal 720 floppy. Do I
- >still need fatspeed (guess not). And what book describes the changes?
-
- You don't need FATSPEED any more. TOS 1.4 disk access speed is far, far
- better than that in TOS 1.0
-
- >I have a good book that describes TOS 1.0 completely and part of TOS
- >1.2 but I heard TOS 1.4 has some extra systemcalls like Mxalloc.
-
- It depends on which languages you can understand. There are some excellent
- German texts, and you could read my TOS 1.4 description in a previous edition
- of the UK mag "ST Applications" :-) There is no new Mxalloc system call --
- that came in later versions on TOS.
-
- >Erlend.
-
- Mat
-
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