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From: dale@amiga.UUCP (Dale Luck)
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Subject: Re: Bad news about 1.2 & New Amigas
Message-ID: <1598@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 00:41:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  3 00:41:43 1986
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Reply-To: dale@tooter.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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Keywords: 1.2 news

In article <1597@amiga.amiga.UUCP> dale@tooter.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:

Another reason that may be even more improtant than the ones I have
already flamed about (sorry folks). Is this:
There are many programs out there that due to problems in application
software will not run under 1.2 The reasons to this are myriad.
We didn't know there was a differnce in chip/fast memory.
We thought that we could just hard code constants for addresses of routines
since you promised to be upward compatible.
We didn't know the program was freeing 200 bytes at location 0.
Gee I forgot to initialize the message port in that IO block.
Ya I know it was 'reserved' so I thought I could use that offset into
the structure.
All kinds of reasons that 1.2 now dislikes the above programs as well
as many other programming booboo's.  Turns out almost everyone of the
3rd party software developers are busy fixing those problems and new ones
will be introduced to replace the old stuff. But these software developers
have lead time to contend with, there is product already in the pipline.
Going out with 'ONLY 1.1' will only cause confusion and disatisfied
customers. As th3e 3rd party developers catch up to 1.2 and release their
now 'bug free' :) programs then 1.2 will become the standard os. Until
then everyone will have two different versions of the os. Which may be an
even bigger confusion, but I'm hoping the dealers can explain the true
facts and not blame us on releasing an incompatible version of the software
because the transformer does not work (They did the hardcoded scam'
Dale Luck
Disclaimer just like my previous posting.