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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS 1.5
Message-ID: <3115@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 21:41:38 GMT
References: <5463@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <5463@louie.udel.EDU> Tom Claydon: ASTLC@alaska.bitnet;, writes:
)
)   In the Vol. IV, issue 5 of ROBO CITY NEWS, pg. 28, John Foust talks
)about AmigaDOS 1.5, and says:
)
)                "AmigaDOS 1.5 is planned to be a complete
)                 rewrite, and technicians are making dibs on
)                 the parts they want to fix. This rewritten
)                 version of AmigaDOS means that all programs
)                 will break, and that programmers will have new
)                 concepts to learn in order to program the Amiga."

My good friend John is ... misinformed.  There is no plan that I have
been clued in on to create an incompatible release.  I have some idea
where this rumor might come from, but it ain't so.  All effort is on
V1.4, and the only talk about V1.5 is about things we aren't doing in
V1.4.

However, we hope that there will be new concepts to learn in each software
release.  I guarantee it for V1.4, but only if you want to try new things.

) Anybody want to give me a clue as to how the new OS will be structured?
)Will it lean towards a more CLI-type enviroment rather than a Workbench
)enviroment?

I would sincerely hope that we continue to merge the two concepts, rather
than favor one.

)Tom Claydon             University Of Alaska Anchorage

I like a guy who attributes his rumors, even the false ones.  Thanks for that.
We'll try real hard to make reality interesting enough to talk about.

	jimm

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