Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!good
From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TurboDos
Message-ID: <1027@atari.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 17:21:15 GMT
References: <8803261045.AA20972@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1026@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 38
Summary: Clarification

In article <1026@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> From article <8803261045.AA20972@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>,
> by XBR2DB2Q@DDATHD21.BITNET (Rainer Fuchs, TH Darmstadt):
> 
> > Most recently I got a program called TURBODOS.PRG. The copyright message on
> > startup indicates that it is from ATARI France.
> 
> THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ATARI CORP.  PRODUCT.  If Atari France wants to
> put their name on it, that's their business, but I wouldn't trust *my*
> hard disk to it. 
> On the other hand, I haven't seen it yet, so that might just be
> not-invented- here mentality on my part.
> But remember, TURBODOS is *not* from Atari (not from this office, anyway).

For clarification:
TurbosDOS is a program which is distributed by Atari France, and supported
by them. Under this business arrangement, certain other Atari subsidiaries
have taken up distribution, or are considering it.
From a corporate standpoint, many of the features included in TurboDOS, and
especially the bug fixes, are already covered by the next ROM release, and
so corporate is not looking at the total product to carry the formal Atari
corporate seal of approval. However, we are taking steps to provide a
standard RAMDisk and DiskCacher, if we find one which satisifies all our
internationalization and compatibility requirements.

I do in fact have it loaded on my system and have not noticed any ill
effects. But neither have I truly "tested" it - I just use it as an
normal everyday user of applications such as word processing and
spreadsheets might use it.

As Allan stated, his comments are personal, and not to be construed as
an official Atari response.
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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation

Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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