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From: mark@dmcnh.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: ROM TOS
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 11:42:43 EST
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Rumors about Rom Tos functionality are starting to float across
the compuserve atari sigs. Specifically:

	1) Dialog boxes crash on '_' characters

	2) They didn't fix the notorious 3 compile puts the
	desktop to sleep problem. (What? run some batch
	programs like the compiler/linker a few times, say 3 or 4
	cycles of edit - compile - link - run. Eventually
	the desktop forgets about all of your open directory
	windows.)

Any other bad news out there?

Also, many of us put out $300.00 bucks for the developers package, and
received several items that were distinctly broken, and a few things that
were missing. Namely: the command and batch programs have bugs, the
RSC takes a hike frequently, the archiver, icon editor, and various
pieces of documentation are missing, the symbolic interactive debugger
doesn't function at all like the documentation, and the C compiler has
a few irregularities. While I was pleased to receive the Emacs editor
and the new docs for bios, that was months ago, since then a distinct
lack of upgrades have been pouring out of Atari. What gives?

And finally, before I put out $600 for the hard drive, Anyone got one in
use who would like to report on it?

Oh, finally, I don't care where Atari sells ST's, but they sure as hell
should provide a supported and reasonably priced upgrade from 512K to
1024K. I can't believe the drivel about how selling an ST for $500
bucks makes it less of a machine than if you sold it for $1500 bucks.