Date: 08 Oct 97 20:08:28 -0600 From: "Gary Peake" Subject: Re: ** Its Official! NEW AMIGA OS FROM GATEWAY! ** References: <34354A47.E28D3FA0@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <1294.220T1440T12083244@accesscomm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc X-Organization: Team Amiga Worldwide Lines: 34 X-Newsreader: THOR 2.5a (Amiga;TCP/IP) NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.235.48.124 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!cosy.sbg.ac.at!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newscore.univie.ac.at!newsfeed.ecrc.net!199.60.229.5.MISMATCH!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.he.net!nntp.flash.net!newsfeed.icanect.net!newsfeed.kcdata.com!news2.kcdata.com!207.235.48.124 Anthony Becker rambled on about Re: ** Its Official! NEW AMIGA OS FROM GATEWAY! ** > Alexander W. Dorn wrote: >> On Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:49:18 -0400, Anthony Becker >> wrote: >> >> Actually, word is now coming out that there may/will be a Rom involved >> with WB3.5. This is part of the problem with reading in between the >> lines -- it's hard to tell the difference between substance and a >> coffee stain! > Well, not really reading between the lines as Mr. Listle said that we > should all upgrade to > 3.1 ROMs as 3.5 will be running on it. Of course, that was yesterday, > this is today and these things can always change. As I recall, Commodore > was working on 1.4 which would run on 1.3 ROMs and we ended up with 2.0. It has been said that whatever 'software only upgrade' version (call it 3.5) comes out later this year, it WILL require version 3.1 roms. I would hazard a guess that this means it wont be kickable ... The major upgrade (call it 4.0), scheduled for next year will be a rom and software upgrade. -- Gary Peake, Coordinator 1:106/7511.1 *Team Amiga Worldwide* gpeake@accesscomm.net -- Miami plus Msi, Thor, Cybergfx, and Vapor betas! Register that shareware!