Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!apratt
From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Changing  to / in TOS
Message-ID: <969@atari.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 20:50:27 GMT
References: <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, 
juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) says:

> 	My guess is that while they were introducing hard coded limits
> into the OS they managed to see that the user had some alternatives in
> MS-DOS and then they eliminated them.

I do not consider it a flame against me (The Keeper of GEMDOS and
Loremaster) when you slam GEMDOS.  The programmer mentioned elsewhere in
this newsgroup (since Bruce Holloway didn't mention his name, I won't
either) is the culprit, and I have been fixing his code for the last
four months.  I have put out the worst fires, but I don't ever see this
version of GEMDOS matching MS-DOS 3.x...  It would take a complete
rewrite. 

Even so, I have killed the 40-folder bug, fixed Malloc, and removed the
molasses from the FAT handling code, plus lots of other, more minor
fixes.  Sorry about teasing you with this stuff, but I don't know how or
when it will be released.  One good possibility is as a RAM-loaded
upgrade (only 32K, not 200K like RAM TOS was). 

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt