Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: bios function 0x7f Summary: I agree!! Message-ID: <272@laas.laas.fr> Date: 10 Jan 89 18:32:26 GMT References: <1263@atari.UUCP> <3774@druhi.ATT.COM> <1268@atari.UUCP> <3186@sugar.uu.net> Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France Lines: 19 In article <3186@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: | Moral: Atari should say "the following programs are going to break in rev | such-and-such of TOS. Other programs that make this, thato, or the other | assumption will also break. We're giving you X months warning. These changes | are necessary to fix the a, b, and c bugs and to add these enhancements...". | | Then DO it. Fix it. It's like going cold turkey, but at some point you just | have to stop throwing good money after bad. | -- I agree emphatically!! Yes, even if some of my nice PD programs that I've collected would crash. --ralph -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!mcvax!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: SOBEK@FRMOP11.BITNET sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU