news@laas.laas.fr (USENET News System) (11/13/89)
In article <4062.255748c1@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4224_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple) writes: | | ---> The 1040 should be phased out during March/April 1990 and replaced | by the once called "ST Plus" or "Enhanced ST", now called 1040STE. The | STE will include 1MbRam, fast hardware scrolling, 4096 colour palette, | 8-bit stero PCM sound, TOS1.4 operating system, and four SIMM (single in | line memory module) for easy expansion to 4Mb." Just a slight correction. According to local full-color adds, by Atari-France, for the STE, it will come with 512k RAM. It's advertised as the 520 STE! Them's my two bits worth. :-) Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!mcvax!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: SOBEK@FRMOP11.BITNET sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Upon the instruments of death the sunlight brightly gleams. -- King Crimson
mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) (11/14/89)
/* acf5:comp.sys.atari.st / depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) / 11:19 pm Nov 13, 1989 */ >In article <1783@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >>ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes: >>>The strange thing is that i have a hard time believing that i >>>am still considering buying an 030 that won't multitask all that >>>niffty GEM software i have on my drive. > >>What I'm trying to say is THIS IS NOT EASY. It's not even Moderately >>Difficult. This is A Hard Problem. The presence of a 68030 doesn't >>make it any easier. >> > >It is for the same reasons that OS/2 isn't compatible with dos. ... OS/2 286 allows one DOS compatibility window within OS/2. OS/2 386 will allow any number of DOS compatibility windows within OS/2. >Does anyone know how the hell Macintosh managed to make all their programs >work with multidesk (or was multitasking always supported on the Mac? >Please don't flame me if this is very common knowledge - my hatred for >Apple runs so deep that I haven't even touched one until quite recently...) I am not flaming you, but it IS kommon knowledge. With HARD WORK! Like the people which wrote OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Desqview ... Mind you, I am not saying Atari people don't work hard. The contrary. But they seem to be too few to handle a project of this size. I guess there are other departments (ie PC compatibles, game machines) which have more need of Atari's employees. Thanasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How Hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of cource!" R. A. Heinlein Internet: mitsolid@csd2.nyu.edu (mitsolid%csd2.nyu.edu@relay.cs.net) UUCP : ...!uunet!cmcl2!csd2!mitsolid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------