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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS--Whats next??
Message-ID: <1175@atari.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 18:25:59 GMT
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Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
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In article <747@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM writes:
> 
> What changes does the new version of TOS include?  Will it be useful
> without the blitter?

We have already enumerated the changes here on the net.  There are a new
features on the Desktop, and performance improvements in GEMDOS.  Most
notably, the "40-folder limit" has almost gone away, Malloc has been
vastly improved, and some disk I/O is much faster.  (Ever say "show
info" on a 16MB partition? Takes ~10 seconds, doesn't it? Now it takes
less than one, and even less if the FAT is already cached.)

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