meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) (01/06/89)
Hi! Despite all the flames I got from atari on my previous posting on the TT, I've decided to reveal a new piece of TT info. An atari source told me that the long awaited TT will be shown at the Hannover Fair this spring. Developer versions will be delivered end 1st or somwehere 2nd quarter of 1989. Customer shipments start 3rd quarter 1989. The TT will run a version of TOS which is compatible with the ST TOS. Also Unix will eventually become available. Some speculation (this is pure mine): The TT will run TOS 1.4, which is delayed by atari for this purpose. Remember that beta copies of 1.4 have been shipped to developers more than half a year ago. I found that 1.4 was a lot better than 1.2, so what else could cause this delay? Rom production? Hah! My questions to Atari US: Can you officially confirm the above? Can you reveal more info (say about the processor)? Will the TOS release for the TT be in the same ROMS as the ST one? One request to atari: do not overflow my mailbox with messages like "don't mail such rumours; we'll announce something when it is ready". I already have plenty of these messages. -- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology ( or try: ...!mcvax!philmds!prle!cst!meulenbr)
good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) (01/10/89)
in article <327@cstw01.UUCP>, meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) says: > > Despite all the flames I got from atari on my previous posting on the > TT, I've decided to reveal a new piece of TT info. > [rumors etc deleted] > > My questions to Atari US: > Can you officially confirm the above? > Can you reveal more info (say about the processor)? > Will the TOS release for the TT be in the same ROMS as the ST one? > > One request to atari: do not overflow my mailbox with messages like > "don't mail such rumours; we'll announce something when it is ready". > I already have plenty of these messages. > Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl) > Centre for Software Technology Since you've already answered your own questions, I'll just let everyone see both your questions AND your answers! We will announce details when we are ready to do so. [Just as an aside, since the 68030 uses 32-bit bus and 68000 uses 16-bit bus any ROMs will not be compatible on any system, unless a performance degradation on the 68030 is desired :-)] Roy Good/Atari