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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New ST ROMS (and breaking old applications)
Keywords: gemdos,patch
Message-ID: <1127@atari.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 17:03:30 GMT
References: <525@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <525@nikhefh.hep.nl> gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek) writes:
> I believe that the OS should be fixed NOW, without looking back ...

I understand that viewpoint, but I cannot go along with it.  The core of
the philosophy of fixing the OS must be this:

	When at all possible, don't make happy people/programs unhappy.
	In light of this, when possible, try to make unhappy people happy. 

I think we have done this.  See my previous article (manifesto) on
Malloc.  It shows that we (I) put a lot of effort into making Malloc
compatible but also much improved.  I think we (I) succeeded. 

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt