Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!imagen!atari!apratt 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 References: <948@aluxz.UUCP> <1172@atari.UUCP> <747@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 15 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.) ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt