Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!apollo!gaz
From: gaz@apollo.COM (Gary Zaidenweber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Room for change
Message-ID: <3e033dc3.52e@apollo.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 88 15:37:00 GMT
References: <1123@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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From article <1123@atari.UUCP>, by kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher):
>   Jinfu has hit the nail squarely on the head.  There isn't enough
> room for both versions of Malloc in the ROMs unfortunately.  Believe me,
> folks, these ROMs are packed full o' goodies.  The french ROM, for example,
> has less than 100 bytes free! (sizes vary because of differing desktop and
> AES resources)

Ken, I'm really with you--anything worth doing is worth doing right. Unfortunately, 
"right" is subjective. In my opinion, fixing broken code is the most "right" thing
to do in this case. The next most right thing to do is maintaining backward 
compatibility (hey, I develop and support software for a living, too!) Further
down the list of "right" things to do is adding new features. We all love them but
making (and keeping) programs working is more important--features can be added by
giving coding examples in books and on disk. This is my opinion, I hope you and
the management at Atari will agree.

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