Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!wingard From: wingard@ncrcae.UUCP (Steve Wingard) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: GDOS, GDOS, GDOS, GDOS ... Message-ID: <2341@ncrcae.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Nov-86 20:57:16 EST Article-I.D.: ncrcae.2341 Posted: Sat Nov 1 20:57:16 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 00:11:24 EST References: <8610302053.AA05161@ames-prandtl.ARPA> Reply-To: wingard@ncrcae.UUCP (Steve Wingard) Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, W Columbia, SC Lines: 28 The GDOS.PRG that Migraph has been sending out with EasyDraw for the past 7 months is strictly a prerelease version that was debugged enough to work for EasyDraw. Migraph was apparently working in an IBM -> ST cross-development environment (the IBM PC version of GDOS/VDI works fine, I guess...) and they had to have GDOS to release their program. Atari probably saw EasyDraw as a good product that would help sell quite a few ST's and worked on getting Migraph a version of GDOS that worked well enough to get EasyDraw out the door. Don't get too upset at Neil and the rest of the folks at Atari... they seem to be taking the time they need to release a really well-debugged package for us and sometimes that can take a while... all in all, I would rather wait than get a GDOS that Atari has to continually fix. And when it's really ready, I bet we'll be seeing some really fantastic software that takes advantage of all the goodies. DISCLAIMER: I don't have any affiliation with Atari (obviously.. look at the ORG line in the header!) but I think lots of us know what it's like to try to kill every bug in a complicated program as people are screaming at you to RELEASE it... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Wingard ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!ncrcae!wingard NCR Corp., E&M-Columbia ...!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!wingard #include #include