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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To Fix or Not To Fix (Really: applying patches to OS)
Message-ID: <1237@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 17:06:45 GMT
References: <635@ihnet.ATT.COM> <383@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> <1224@netmbx.UUCP> <524@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <524@nikhefh.hep.nl> gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek) writes:
>In article <1224@netmbx.UUCP> hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes:
>>
>>Or just release the fix on disk: a little residend program replacing the
>>original (ROM-) trap handler.
>>This would be my way of releasing a fix; if it works and everybody likes
>>it, put it in a new ROM set.
>>I put 6*27C512 in my 520ST+ to have the "old" and Blitter TOS availeble;
>>this is kind of expensive but useful...
>>Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP
>>If there is something more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot,
>>NOW! (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
>
>I wouldn't like that! Just imagine what happens when one happens to have
>5 fixes on GemDos. 

Yea.
Thats the point.

Today, I have two sets of ROMs (MEGA and pre-Mega) switchble and one
"patch" loaded to RAM (Turbodos; I like it.)

The RAM loaded patches can only be an intermediate fix for a ROM based
system. But isn't it a great way to release a fix for field-testing?


The best fix seems to be a new operating system, right?
Let's complain a little more about the heap of shit the st seems to be!
Maybe the next company dropping the st is Atari....


No. I'm doing serious work with my st. 
I do dislike to loose some time writing my own little programs, because
the OS behaves a little "strange", but I (*I*) can live with it
(almost :-)


hase
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Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP
If there is something more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot,
NOW! (Zaphod Beeblebrox)