Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000! Message-ID: <6091@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 25 Jul 90 11:25:02 GMT References: <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> <13183@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1028@tau.sm.luth.se> <13236@cbmvax.commodore.com> <6055@sugar.hackercorp.com> <13283@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Jul20.234155.27729@spock.UUCP> <6071@sugar.hackercorp.com> <13386@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 27 In article <13386@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: > Sure, we do get to play. But that's a Good Thing; if we didn't, there would > all these extra bugs once the thing is released... Makes sense. Still, you shouldn't go around saying "ours is real because I've seen it and I haven't seen Intel's". They can say the same thing about you, you know. > >Intel keeps trying to tell us that we don't need bugs fixed: they'll be fixed > >in V.4. I'm beginning to think of it as an excuse instead of a release. > We have much the same situation with 1.3 vs. 2.0 as well. Yeh, but we're not paying for a support contract with you guys. > And the lack of X (or at least some kind of graphics subsystem) isn't ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > considered a feature if you're doing hardware work; we work in symbols, not > text! I didn't say graphics were a bug. I said X was a bug. Not only is it big, but it's primitive. ALL the windows are SIMPLEREFRESH! And putting window management in the application program is just plain *sick*. It's like making the STDIO library do erase and kill processing. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .