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From: t68@nikhefh.hep.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bugs in new BETA ROMS?
Message-ID: <534@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 2 Sep 88 08:35:41 GMT
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Reply-To: t68@nikhefh.hep.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
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All this bickering about bugs in the new ROMs and whether they are trivial
to find giving all kinds of speculations about sloppy Atari proceedings
sound ridiculous to me:

Theorem:
Taken by itself any bug is trivial, stupid and careless.

Theorem2:
Once you know about the bug it is very easy to locate it. This makes the
author of the program look stupid.

Proof: There are probably exceptions to prove the rule.

I think Atari did finally the right thing. They made a new version of the
operating system, incorporation lots of remarks and whishes. They give it
an infinite amount more testtime than the original version. In addition
they have for beta testers some people of whom they know that they are good
programmers. Yet there will always be people who are not happy. TOO BAD.

Keep up the good work Allan.

Jos Vermaseren