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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: GDOS, GDOS, GDOS, GDOS ...
Message-ID: <1654@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 23:55:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  4 23:55:18 1986
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Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland OH
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In article <191@slovax.UUCP> michael@slovax.UUCP (Michael Longe) writes:
>Amen! I was the lucky person who got find some of the BUGS in that 
>version and report them to Atari and DRI. If all goes well, the new
>version should include mulitple font loading, hard disk support, and none
>of those silly boot-drive defaults (like OUTPUT.RSC and font files).

	The version if Gdos that we recently received from Atari does indeed
allow multiple font loading (from any directory), etc. One thing that i was
rather surprised to find was that Ataris version of Gdos does not support
NDC coordinates (Landon/Neil can you shed some light on why ??). In any case
i feel NDC coordinates are quite useless, and what would be more usable
are user defined world coordinates (only metafiles support them), that
Gdos converts to RC in the appropriate way so that drawing primitive still
come out right (at least on the screen??). Also NDC coordinates are quite
useless in Gem as AES does'nt use them anyway. Can someone from DRI/Atari
explain why AES was designed in this way (rather why Gem was half done??),
or were NDC coordinates added into Vdi as an after thought??

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