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: <1155@atari.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 19:25:33 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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Mr. Myron Drapal's comments regarding the Beta test of the new TOS have
ceased to be speculative, and by his own admission derived from hearsay,
and have now become facetious.

His article <3446@druhi.ATT.COM> includes:
 "the level of developer testing was probably done by the compiler ("It
  compiles, let's ship it..."
 "there may be *NO* official beta testers out there..."

If Mr. Drapal had taken the time to read my posting <1150@atari.UUCP> of
9/01, he would have seen that we have around 70 "official" Beta sites.
Had he also taken the time to read Allan Pratt's posting <1152@atari.UUCP>,
he would further have seen a detailed explanation behind this one topic
that is so very dear to Mr. Drapal, that of compatibility with IBM-PC
formatted media.
But it seems that Mr. Drapal has not the time to do this (unless the posting
take a long time to reach his site), and prefers to continue his speculative
and demotivating tirades.
In my posting, referred to above, I asked Mr. Drapal to publicly post his
sources for these reports etc. I will assume that he will respond over the
weekend and once and for all reveal these secrets.

I believe that the vast majority of readers of this topic are reasonably
mature people, since they are in the UNIXtm world [:-)], and therefore
can derive from these types of posting the character of the poster. With
that remark, I feel I have no need to state my own feelings.

As an aside, Mr. Drapal is using the resources of AT&T to cause what is
potentially commercial damage to Atari Corporation. Additionally, Atari
is a customer of AT&T. I would be interested to know what AT&T Management
feels about this type of business relationship. Maybe the System Administrator
of this AT&T site would like to obtain a response from the appropriate
divisional management, and also comment on whether AT&T condones this type
of posting through its corporate systems. Since Mr. Drapal does not include
any disclaimer to the contrary in his postings, and since he signs his
postings as "AT&T Bell Laboratories, Denver", I (and any other reader) have
no reason to believe other than that his comments reflect the opinions of
AT&T.

An alternative, parallel, approach which I might suggest is that any reader
who is against this type of posting "email" his/her opinion to Mr. Drapal,
and to any other poster who adopts this approach, in this or any other
news category.

I plan no further postings on this topic, as I believe all has already
been said.

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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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