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From: turner@imagen.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Upgrading a 1040 to 4 Megs
Message-ID: <948@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 07:53:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 07:53:38 1987
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in article <2337@usceast.UUCP>, tech@usceast.UUCP (Bill Wood) says:
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+ 
+ In article <1315@husc6.UUCP> grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (Justin J. M. Grunau) writes:
+++In article <2425@sunybcs.UUCP> leo@gort.UUCP (Leo Wilson) writes:
++... [he quotes a particularly virulent recent article] ...
+ 	Well of course, DRI had an engineer that was working on a MS-DOS
+ clone and they have GEM. At this point I have to say that personally...
+ I am MAD AS HELL AT DIGITAL RESEARCH!!! Every problem I have seen with
+ the ST can be traced directly back to good ol' DRI and their buggy
+ operating system. Why did they bother with non preemptive multi tasking?
+ Where was their head when they built the memory allocator? Don't they
+ know how to say 'Hard DISK' 40 folders?!? You mean someone might want to
+ have more than 40 folders? They must have had a bunch of virgins working
+ for them. Can you believe it? They didn't even understand priority
+ levels as evedenced by the fact that they move the SYSTEM stack with
+ some of the GEMDOS calls.
+ 				Bill Wood (!usceast!tech)
+---------------------------------------------------------

bless you for stating the truth, after atari got the code from DRI
they spent many hours rewriting the code just to get it to 'work' as
well as it does today. DRI is one of the more brain-damaged OS
companies that i know of. It's true that TOS was put together by DRI
in a hurry but that is still no excuse for the poor design work
underlying it. Almost all (if not all) of the problems that we have
with TOS are directly tracable back to them, I too am in favor of 
burying TOS and trying again with the EST (MINIX, SVR2 ??? anything 
but TOS)

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