Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!good
From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bugs in new BETA ROMS?
Message-ID: <1136@atari.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 17:22:46 GMT
References: <3446@druhi.ATT.COM>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <3446@druhi.ATT.COM>, med@druhi.ATT.COM (Myron Drapal) says:
> 
> 	I hear through the grapevine that there is what I would
> consider a very serious bug in the new BETA ROMS.  I can't verify
> this myself, but the problem affects the way I use the ST enough
> to ask and see if this is really a bug.
> 
> [details deleted - read the original posting]
> 
> 	This is all hearsay, as I couldn't possibly have my own
> copy of these ROMs (;-)...  But I do feel that this is another case of
> fix a few, and create some new - bugs, that is....
> 					Myron Drapal
> 					AT&T Denver
> 					att!druhi!med
> P.S. Has anyone else heard of any new bugs introduced in the BETA ROMS?
>      Are there any (real) BETA testers out there who would like to comment?
>      Any news from the *official* Atari mouthpieces?  Inquiring minds
>      want/need to know...

I was going to let this one go by, since a Developer Release (softloaded)
is imminently available - details are being mailed to all registered 
developers. But then I realized this is just the sort of unthinking posting
that starts off a rumor chain and network explosion.

The mature way to handle this concern would have been to call/email me or
someone at Atari, rather than posting what is clearly rumor and hearsay to
an already sensitive group of readers. But no... it seems it is better to
to launch another missile that can only do damage, either to reputations
or to morale. The closing comment is entirely unnecessary, regarding "fix a
few, create a few..". Why on earth do you think we have have an extended 
Beta with the subsidiaries? Why do you think we are making the Developer
Release before committing to ROM? This version fixes some bugs found in
Beta, and also includes even more performance improvement.

I have tried to keep a conservative tone to my responses, but the lack of
foresight and thought behind this posting got to me. That and a teething
baby [:-)].

PLEEEEEEASE: before putting this sort of muckspreading out for public view,
get the FACTS!!
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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation
Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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