Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: FACTS ABOUT WB2.0 (Was: Re:WB2.0 for non-A3000) Message-ID: <43860@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 8 Feb 91 00:15:08 GMT References: <5542@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 52 In article <5542@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> bsyme@cs.strath.ac.uk (Brian J Syme IE88) writes: >In article > robin@niksula.hut.fi (Jarto 'Robin' Tarpio) writes: > >> As long as developers keep sending bug-reports, the WB2.0 >> will be delayed. When it will be released, it will be >> extremely bug-free. Why can't anybody appreciate it ??? > BECAUSE ITS BEEN FOREVER AND A DAY IN COMING SO FAR > AND SHOWS NO SIGNS OF APPEARING WHATSOEVER! HOW BUG > RIDDEN IS IT!!! So you would rather have a ga-zillion buggy versions of 2.0 floating out there than waiting a little longer for a (nearly) bug-free version? Personally, I would rather wait. I can think of so many bugs in 1.3 that weren't fixed for years. Remember the infamous screen-flipping bug? That was only fixed in the final version of 1.3. There are many other things that don't work right under 1.3. Certified Amiga Developers around the world are busy _trying_ to break the latest betas of 2.0. When they find a bug, or simply think of an enhancement, there are some very organized and efficient ways of informing the SE's at Commodore about it. Once these reports get to Commodore, you can expect something to be done about it -- and fast. Many people don't remember how buggy AmigaOS 1.0 was. I didn't own an Amiga back then, but a friend has had one since the very beginning. I remember thinking, "Gee, what a neat machine. It crashes a lot, though." I was a programmer even back then and I knew that bug-fixes and updates would be done, but the point is that most people don't think about that when they're buying a machine. Most people want bugless functionality NOW, not semi-buggy functionality now & bug-fixes later. Would you buy a game that crashed on the third level with a promise from the software developer to send you a bug fix 'RSN'? With many more Amigas being sold and used in the home and office, the Amiga needs a clean, efficient, NON-BUG-RIDDEN OS. If you really want to see the Amiga go far, you should be able to wait a little longer for 2.0. Commodore is taking an 'Ernest and Julio Gallo' approach to 2.0, and I'm glad they're doing it. As for "NO SIGNS OF APPEARING WHATSOEVER," well, 2.0 is already available on the A3000, and the ROMed general release will be forthcoming. To say more would be to violate a non-disclosure clause I'm sworn to uphold. Greg -- -------Greg-Harp-------greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu-------s609@cs.utexas.edu------- "Confutatis maledictus "When the accursed have been counfounded Flammis acribus addictis, == And given over to the bitter flames, Voca me cum benedictis." -- Mozart Call me with the blessed."