Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!crosfield!jc From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: 2.0 for non-3000's Message-ID: <10317@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> Date: 18 Jun 91 16:09:50 GMT References: <22380@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7893@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <1075.2858ce37@vger.nsu.edu> Reply-To: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom. Lines: 31 In article <1075.2858ce37@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes: >In article <7893@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, boblu@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Robert Luneski) writes: BOB> Wrong, "When, is the question" In our lifetime? It is now in excess of BOB> a year since the introduction of the 3000 and there is still no romable BOB> code and no sign whatsoever of WB2.0 on A500/A2000. So when WILL we BOB> actually see God's gift to operating systems? MARK>It runs fine on my A2000... I guess you will have it when 'it's ready'. MARK>I hate messages like yours. Sorry, but I find Mark's message more annoying than Bob's. I have nothing (much :-) against long development trials, since they remove more bugs, but surely the point is that 2.0 was ready for NON-DEVELOPERS when the 3000 was launched. Given that, and reinforced by Mark's statement that his (presumably developer) version runs fine on a 2000, people are entitled to ask "why is it taking so long?". There may well be good reasons - but taking the attitude, as Mark seems to be doing, that "I've got a copy that works so the rest of you should be happy to wait for years" really irritates me. Explaining the delays would have been constructive - sneering at someone expressing a reasonable concern given available information, even if they do so in a less than tactful way, doesn't help. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Jerry Cullingford #include +44 442 230000 | ,-|-- | jc@crosfield.co.uk (was jc@cel.co.uk) or jc@cel.uucp x3203 | \_|__ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ \___/