Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: "IO Question" & "BUG IN AUDIO.DEVICE" Message-ID: <5680@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 12 Jan 89 14:42:03 GMT References: <8901092219.AA05714@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3243@amiga.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns) writes: >Surely it must be easy to fix commodore supplied programs in >conjunction with new os releases. Maybe you could change the behavior >in the next "lots of things break anyway" release... Except that some of those devices that are broken may be on the Workbench disk, rather than in the ROM. This means if we change the behavior of the rom routines to only twiddle the bit it needs to twiddle, old Workbench disks may stop working. (Or work strangely). One of our usual release goals is that old Workbench disks work with newer Kickstarts. -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Possibly this is a new usage of the word 'compatible' with which I was previously unfamiliar" Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.