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From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC compatible(?) format on the ST
Message-ID: <1150@atari.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 16:21:07 GMT
References: <3461@druhi.ATT.COM>
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <3461@druhi.ATT.COM>, med@druhi.ATT.COM (Myron Drapal) says:
> 
> First off, this is a followup to a posting I made yesterday regarding
> the incompatible PC format from the new BETA ROMs.  Allan Pratt claims
> that this is fixed in the new BETA ROMs, and indeed it is -- that is if
> you never want to store a file on it!!!
> 
> 
> Well, after all of this, I am really wondering how much BETA testing(??)
> that these ROMs have gone through.  You see, I really don't even have a
> set of these ROMS, and have managed to find what I consider a major bug.
> 
> 					Myron Drapal
> 					AT&T Denver
> 					att!druhi!med

Dear Mr. Drapal (and fellow net readers),
Since you are so insistent with your desire to post comments on the
performance of a set of ROMs which you do not have, which is somewhat
akin to publishing a road test report on a Testarossa you have never
driven, might I ask you to make one final posting?

Please post the name and contact address of the person or company from
you which you obtained either:
	the unauthorized copy of the ROMs
	the unauthorized copy of the RAM version ('tho you say "ROMs")
	the source of the report which you are publishing, if it is not you
Also, please post the identification code of the TOS version.

I'm taking a risk - you may have got it through Atari even! But I think you
owe it to Atari and to the more responsible subscribers to this news
category to be less secretive. For all I know, you may have a bootleg copy
of a development-in-progress version.

Incidentally, all Atari subsidiaries received copies of the Beta kit, and
have since received copies of the Developer Kit. There will be further
improvements and, yes, some bug fixes, prior to comitting to ROMs. If
each subsidiary has just 5 external sites (and I believe that is the 
minimum anywhere), there are at least 70 testers. And we have received
some quite obscure bug reports from them, and we thank them for their
support. This last word should be in 28 point bold underlined type, as it
encapsules the spirit of Beta test - the desire of the test site to support
the supplier in the aim of producing a quality final product.
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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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