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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri, 20 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  463
 
Today's Topics:
                        6-chip/2-chip TOS 1.4
                       Cartridge port extender
                 One world, One CPU, One OS (3 msgs)
                 Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
        Zoo output to file (Was: Re: EPROM programmer wanted.)
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Date: 20 Apr 90 00:21:32 GMT
From: fernwood!portal!atari!apratt@apple.com  (Allan Pratt)
Subject: 6-chip/2-chip TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <2157@atari.UUCP>
 
bills@mcrware.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) writes:
>I recently purchased the six-chip set of TOS 1.4, but need to install this
>in a two-chip machine. I have access to a ROM-burner ...
>...(and what EPROM device is the two-chip set made from)?
 
There exists no EPROM with the right pinout for 2-chip Megas.  There
may not be any such OTP, either.  That was a problem when we were
building developer releases, etc.  You just can't do it.
 
If you have six sockets, you're 90% there.  Find the instructions for
cutting & jumping to make your 2-chip Mega a 6-chip Mega.
Alternatively, you can buy the 2-chip TOS 1.4 set.  It's available, and
has been for many months.
 
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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily     -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.      ...ames!atari!apratt
 
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Date: 20 Apr 90 01:19:36 GMT
From:
 mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!omicron.cs.fsu.edu!fsu
 cs.cs.fsu.edu!boyd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Cartridge port extender
Message-ID: <9004200116.AA18263@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
 
In article <3166@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu () writes:
>Would it be possible to extend the cartridge port of the ST so that one could
>put cartidges behind the computer or in a separate box?  How much interference
>would this create?
>
>Also, does anyone know what Dave Small's UUCP address is?
>
>Thanks!!!
>
>Chuck Rickard
>University of Maryland
>Baltimore County
>(chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu)
 
There was talk long ago (from Atari) of releasing an expansion chassis.  I
presume this would use some sort of ribbon connector, and have switches
or something to differentiate between the different cartridges.  I have not
heard anything about it for a long time, but perhaps some third-party
vendor has jumped on the idea (this would be a nice thing to add to Omniswitch).
 
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Date: 19 Apr 90 11:31:16 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!newton.physics.purdue.ed
 u!maxwell.physics.purdue.edu!sho@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Sho Kuwamoto)
Subject: One world, One CPU, One OS
Message-ID: <3550@newton.physics.purdue.edu>
 
In article <1602@mcrware.UUCP> leeg@mcrware.UUCP (Lee Glenn) writes:
>In article <975@stasys.sta.sub.org> fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org (Frank Kaefer)
 writes:
>>demon@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>Summary: Have you tried OS9 ?
 
>Yes, I've tried OS9 and love it!
>
>Lee Glenn
>Software Engineer
>Microware Systems Corp.
 
Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that you seem to work
at the company that manufactures OS9???
 
-Sho
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sho@physics.purdue.edu  <<-- perhaps an "I may be biased but..." would
                             have been in order.
 
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Date: 13 Apr 90 22:19:38 GMT
From: hub!ucsbuxa!6600raft@ucsd.edu  (Michael Wise)
Subject: One world, One CPU, One OS
Message-ID: <4652@hub.UUCP>
 
In article <1990Apr13.160323.3616@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M.
 Baggett) writes:
 
>In article <93.26244db9@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>              What does Apple have to lose by liscensing the Mac OS to
>>Commodore and Atari?
 
I remember when it seemed like the Apple ][ line had the PC market about
locked up until IBM came out with the PC.  The main difference in courses
of action IBM has taken in comparison to Apple is that IBM has provided
the opportunity for clones, vastly incresing their "standard."  One just
has to think back to the days of Franklin Computer to see Apple's
course of action which contunues today.
 
If Apple were to license their OS to Commodore, Atari, or whoever, I
don't think their sales would really lessen, but that overall demand
for the Mac-OS would increase across the board, including demand for
the Macintosh.  When other MS-Dos machines emerged, sales of IBMs
didn't drop through the floor, conversely, they have remained strong.
I believe Apple has the reputation to insure that their sales would
continue to be strong.  Furthermore, a little more competition in the
Mac-OS industry certainly couldn't hurt.
 
 
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Date: 20 Apr 90 01:06:42 GMT
From: sage.cc.purdue.edu!ar4@purdue.edu  (Piper Keairnes)
Subject: One world, One CPU, One OS
Message-ID: <4152@sage.cc.purdue.edu>
 
consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler) writes:
>
>Maybe Apple/Atari/Commodore wouldn't have much to lose, but the people who
>buy these machines lose out on a lot.  I have had my Amiga for a number of
>years now, and I just wouldn't be happy with anything else.  Each of the
>different machines has their relative strong points - the Mac for DTP, the
>Amiga for DTV, and the Atari for MIDI.  If the Mac OS (or the AmigaDOS or the
>ST's DOS) became the 'standard,' what about all the features that would be
>lost from the other lines...?
 
I think that instead of assuming that one system's OS would completely
REPLACE the others we should attempt to support the advantages that all
computers would be able to offer if the better parts of each OS were added
to the whole.
 
Each company has spent millions (even more, I'd imagine) on the development
of their system software. Would not the entire computer industry be better
off if those millions were "combined" into a single project?? Alas, if that
were done, then the marvels of capitalism would have been abandoned ;)
 
We definitely have a long way to go in the
realm of cooperation...  (myself included)
 
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Piper Keairnes
ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu
 
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Date: 19 Apr 90 18:48:30 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!fauern!tub!tubopal!alderaan@tut.cis.
 ohio-state.edu  (Thomas Cervera)
Subject: Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
Message-ID: <1401@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
 
In article <2154@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>>  Uhm. Maybe your C library does the Fsfirst ?
>
>Uhm.  The capitalized "function calls" are actually direct OS calls,
>with no library intervention.  What you see is what GEMDOS saw, with no
>interference from anything.
 
  Sorry, I'm a machine language programmer, no experience with the C nomen-
clature :-)
  Uhm~2. My RAM TOS 1.0 (GEMDOS V0.21) also clobbers files with Dcreate () !
Also the ROM TOS 1.0 in all machines at FU Berlin's physics department.
Am I hallucinating ?! PLEASE could anybody (outside Germany) try it on his ST ?
If this problem is unique to our machines, this would be really strange ...
 
-thomas
 
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Date: 20 Apr 90 03:29:41 GMT
From: fernwood!portal!cup.portal.com!buggs@apple.com  (William Edward JuneJr)
Subject: Zoo output to file (Was: Re: EPROM programmer wanted.)
Message-ID: <29133@cup.portal.com>
 
>How to instruct Arcgsh to write the output of Zoo to a file instead of
>the screen: Click on "Filenames..." in the main Zoo dialog box, then
>select a file as "Standard output".
 
Thanks, now if it hasn't<arcgsh> 'rolled off' the system here......
 
Ed June
 
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