Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!convex!thurlow@convex.com From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: official tos 1.4 release Message-ID: <2172@convex.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 89 01:31:53 GMT References: <460c4f58.14a1f@force.UUCP> <2097@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <4634aec9.14a1f@force.UUCP> <1266@cacilj.UUCP> <15579@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.UUCP Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Lines: 32 strasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu ( Colin J. Strasser.) writes: >In article <1266@cacilj.UUCP> paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close) writes: >>Oh my, a bug in RTS/CTS handling! Tsk, tsk. Forget about the zillions of >Folks, what we have here is the bane of the consumer -- the "brand loyalist." Not fair. I understand Paul - he's tired of someone who never stops whining, just like I am. Oh, Richard Covert's knock on the RTS/CTS bug is not too negative, but he *did* make the comment that Atari should have gone back and re-done the PROMs. To do so would be truly stupid. My point (and as I read it, Paul's point) is that for a small bug like RTS/CTS, you don't stop delivery and start a new distribution. Doing that would do a great disservice to the people who want and need the majority of the fixes you already have. It is truly unfortunate that the bug wasn't found by alpha testing at Atari, but them's the breaks. It's maybe not good at all that they didn't acknowledge the bug right away. But you don't stop everything when you've almost got stuff that people have been waiting for for two years or more ready to come out of a three month pipeline. You have to leave some stuff for the next release sometimes. I want those ROMs, and I can work around the RTS/CTS stuff, I suspect. What I don't wish to do is wait three more months for a different set of ROMs that fixes one more bug, because the odds are 99.5% that more bugs will be found in the interim, and we'll be right back again. If more bugs are found in the next few months, I *would* like to hear at that time that another release is planned. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow - Expatriate Canadian thurlow@convex.com "From the heart of 'The Friendship State'"