Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!auvax!rwa
From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The Right to Flame (was Re: ST Minix)
Message-ID: <615@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 20:55:42 GMT
References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM> <1043@atari.UUCP> <2771@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Keywords: flames and infantile prattling
Summary: Dave Beckenmeyer is entitled to flame



The summary says it all.  Dave had a multitasking kernel running on an
ST before most people on this net figured out how to boot their STs.  He's
invested heavily in development tools (priced a MicroVAX lately?  I have.)
And he actually seems to know whereof he speaks, a virtue honoured more
often in the breach than the observance locally.

I (speaking for Athabasca University) am a registered developer.  Big
deal.  We have had STs since mid-1985; they are popular and cheap.
BUT they are the *least supported* machine around.  If there is a bug
in TOS, the customer, not Atari, fixes it or lumps it.  Remember
TOS-in-ram?  Why can't interim bug fixes be distributed that way?
Because IT WOULD COST MONEY and that sort of thing doesn't seem to
be part of the Atari game plan.

We plan to continue developing for the Atari.  Under Minix.  Have a
nice day without us, Jack!

--
Ross Alexander, Sr Systems Programmer, Athabasca University alberta!auvax!rwa
     "My other computers are 3 VAXen and 4 Suns and a pair of 3B2s"