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In article <6071@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>So far, V.4 is still only available in beta... for Commodore *or* Intel. You
>guys at the computer companies get to play, but you're all still vaporware.

Sure, we do get to play.  But that's a Good Thing; if we didn't, there would
all these extra bugs once the thing is released...

>Intel keeps trying to tell us that we don't need bugs fixed: they'll be fixed
>in V.4. I'm beginning to think of it as an excuse instead of a release.

We have much the same situation with 1.3 vs. 2.0 as well.  Sure, there are lots
of 1.3 bugs that folks would like to see fixed.  If we spend time working on
the old (obselete, unsupported, antiquated, whatever) OS, the new one doesn't
get written.  Same problem they have with UNIX -- at some point, they have to
stop most of the support of the OS that's about to be replaced to get the new
one out.  That's apparently why you can't get the AMIX SVR3.2 release; it would
have been too difficult to launch a new (from Commodore's viewpoint) OS knowing
it would be replaced within the year anyway.

>> Randell's thinking of the full system here, not a subset.  Modern
>> UNIX ain't small.

>Well that's the point, isn't it?

You don't see it running on my machine, do you.  I have no use for SVR3.2,
either.  And the lack of X (or at least some kind of graphics subsystem) isn't
considered a feature if you're doing hardware work; we work in symbols, not
text!

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.


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