Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The DANGERS of TURBO-DOS
Message-ID: <649@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 06:44:57 GMT
References: <1687@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1039@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Keywords: turbodos

In article <1039@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>
>I encourage people not to use TurboDOS -- I know I wouldn't trust my
>hard disk to it.  If they didn't think media-change through, what else
>didn't they do?

I understand the point of view of Allan. However, what really irks me
is that what he is saying is so negative. I would not have minded if Atari
themselves were doing something. However, on all evidence they are doing
sweet f*** a**: the blitter chip is still vapourware, I have no idea
if/when/where I could get updated ROMs with less bugs etc. etc.

Now, here we have something actually done to help ST users. OK, it is
buggy (my set of auto and acc programs sometimes bomb, apparently because
of including turbodos), but I am sure that with the interest which it has
raised new versions will appear pretty soon as people disassemble it and
fix the bugs. A nice attitude from Atari (gee, this guy is really a dreamer!)
would be to help to fix it, not simply to decry it without any alternative
offering (but then, would I believe it if Atari talked of an alternative
offering Real Soon Now?).

Allan, it is probably not your fault: I am flaming the wrong person.
Nonetheless, try to be a bit more positive than just "don't use it".
I personally will try it, with the reservation that every so often I will
disable it and run DLII.

(for those who may have noted that I could not run the new icon program,
the fix is simple, since turbodos simply seems to move much of what was
in low memory a bit further down. Thus, the icon replacement program
just had to look for "DESKTOP.RSC" a bit further on in memory)
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