Xref: utzoo comp.sys.m6809:759 comp.sys.tandy:687 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att-cb!att-ih!ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen From: knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809,comp.sys.tandy Subject: Tandy Upgrade Support--None Message-ID: <2471@ihwpt.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Apr 88 21:42:38 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 34 Keywords: OS9, Coco, support [Previous discussion on how Tandy never supplies upgrades to Coco software, except for after-the-fact notices about the L1 OS9 upgrades.] OK, I'll be first to say that upgrades to Coco software are a joke. In fact, that's one reason I ruled out selling my music program thru Tandy -- the inability to supply upgrades or even new upgraded versions. However, if you get the Developer's Kit you have to admit that the new RMA (C.asm) and RLINK (C.link) are upgrades to the C compiler complex (yes, it's complex!). The new linker especially has shed a lot of buggy quirks. Now, if they'd just upgrade C.opt -- it optimizes bugs into your code sometimes. Did it to me again two nites ago. PS: Anyone know anyone with the "adult" version of Microware's 6809 C compiler (you know, for Gimix, SSB, Helix SS-50 boat anchor boxes)? Wonder if M'ware has ever upgraded it for its own customers, but not for us Tandy toadies? (I'll bet M'ware enjoys dealing with Tandy execs as much as we enjoy their saleslifeforms -- wonder what Tandy paid extra to have the L1 disk drivers crippled?). Anyway, I suspect that Microware is concentrating all their efforts on the 68K versions, and that the 6809 stuff gets dusted off only when Tandy offers big bucks, and then the job gets assigned to their newest employees. But of course if not for Tandy, nobody at M'ware could even find the 6809 sources in the basement by now, so why complain...? -- Mike J Knudsen ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T) Delphi: RAGTIMER CIS: "Just say NO to MS-DOS!" "OS/2 == 1/2 of an OS"