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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga and the MMU (Re: Suggestion for 1.4)
Message-ID: <2429@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 04:34:17 GMT
References: <611@myrias.UUCP> <11640001@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <2110@sugar.UUCP> <5580@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <5580@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
)>The solution: how about trying it and seeing how much stuff breaks.
)
)Peter has a very good idea here, which I think a couple of others have also
)said one way or another.  Let me add a suggestion.  Since it looks like 1.4
)is 6 months to a year away, how about making this a widely distributed beta
)release (like to everyone) that does something gross like write "beta
)release" in two inch high letters across the bootup screen, and accompany
)it with a note saying "we think this is going to break a lot of software;
)please try it and report problems that look like <description> to your
)third party software vendor and to <commodore contact>; THIS TEST RELEASE
)IS NOT KNOWN TO BE SAFE TO USE WHILE DOING OPERATIONS ON VALUABLE DATA,
)KEEP EXTRA FREQUENT BACKUPS; don't discard your 1.2 or 1.3 workbench disks
)yet."

Hell, I think we should put that notice on it when we ship final release.

)Just a stray thought.
)Kent, the man from xanth.

	jimm, stray system programmer

PS: 6 months to a year?  That makes my stomach hurt.
-- 
	Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing	  
	amiga!jimm	BIX:jmackraz
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