Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: official tos 1.4 release Summary: Atari could be a pioneer: announce drop-dead date for TOS revision NOW Message-ID: <9826@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 20 Oct 89 15:17:44 GMT References: <460c4f58.14a1f@force.UUCP> <2172@convex.UUCP> Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill. Lines: 21 In article <2172@convex.UUCP>, thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes: > 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 Atari could do something to make a lot of us happy, and get a huge marketing advantage with people who love their computers (blush) by announcing right now that at some specific date in the moderate future the specifications for TOS 1.8 will be frozen. All bugs known to Atari as of that date will be addressed; all new features will have been chosen by then. After that, it's up to the programmers. Sure, people will start getting impatient about 6 months after the drop-dead date, but that's about when the internal alpha testing should be starting, and that's a nice thing to be able to announce. Who knows, by having a definite freeze date, the development might even be helped. Steve J.