Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS 1.3.  Will it ever come out?
Message-ID: <4364@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 01:18:48 GMT
References: <1059@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1059@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed) writes:
>There are rumors about 1.3 being scrapped and just waiting for 1.4.

	I haven't heard any of them here, only from people like you.

>It is beginning to
>seem like C= is never going to release another version of the OS.  All
>I hear is "It's comming, It's comming... just be patient."

	Well, it is.  We've been all working on 1.4 for some time now,
except for the occaisional fix for QA (each fix bringing out another
Omega version).  I don't know exactly when it'll be out, but I guarantee
you we didn't plan for it to take this long.  A problem would have to be
REAL major at this point to cause a rev.  (And some of the latest fixes were,
as you'd know if you read amiga.dev on bix (an open-to-everyone conference.)

>I can't afford the $500 commercial developers thingy
>when I write freeware (along with alot of other people.)

	$500?  $50 is the generic developers rates, commercial developers
rates I think are higher than $500.  Talk to CATS.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup