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From: Sleeple@UMass.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Standardization
Message-ID: <880307110110123.AHJN@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 88 16:11:53 GMT
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Well I am new to the Atari world....so pardon me if I am greatly out
of line.  We have all been waiting anxiously waiting for the ROM upgrades
from Atari.  Why don't we, as responsible programmers, take this great
moment and standardize!  Yes...silly as it may seem, now is probably the
best time to do it.  With the new ROMs, may programs will have to be
reworked anyway, so why not standard certain things while we are at it.
Things like:
  ((Fonts....boy...this would be great
((Postscript driver....in fact...ALL printer drivers....
these are all I can think of off the top of my head....maybe you guys
can think of more.....think of the power this would give the average
user...
Perhaps standardization of programming techniques, ie...rules, that
programmer should stick to in order to keep compatability within different
programs......
I know...I'm just asking for too much....so flame me if you really want..

Damian Roskill  SLEEPLE@UMASS

"I didn't hurt it, I killed it, it didn't feel a thing."
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