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In article <2097@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <46207fa0.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
> 
> Well, ALL tos 1.4 users use the same patch. I assume that Atari, being
> fairly smart people, will arrange it so that if future patches are
> needed, it will still be one file. This is much simpler ("Get this one
> latest patch file") then worrying if you have TOS 1.4a or 1.4b or 1.4c
> and having to get the right patch for each version.
> 
> All in all, it's much easier to support one rom for which you're
> supposed to have one patch file, than 14 different versions and 14
> different patch files.
> 
> Greg Lindahl

The problem Greg is that you just plain and simply can't count on
Atari for support!! If Atari was going to support the ST, why didn't Atari
license GPLUS from Charles Johnson and include it in TOS 1.4??

Why didn't Atari make any improvments in GDOS for TOS 1.4?? I have over
3 megs of GDOS fonts for my SLM804 and if it wasn't for Charles Johnson's
GPLUS I wouldn't use any of them!! The GDOS support in TOS, even TOS 1.4,
is almost zero compared to what GPLUS offers. And GPLUS has been out for
a year now, so Atari could have licensed it from Charles Johnson.

And Atari didn't even want to admit that there was a bug in the serial
port code in TOS 1.4 until the Canadian hacker showed Atari the actual
bug in the code. Pretty responsive of Atari, huh?? And this is for an OS
that has been under development for 2 years!! After 2 years, you would think that
Atari would have it right!!!

Boy, a good outline font system, aka the macintosh system, would really be
great for the ST!! But asking Atari for anything like that is like jumping
to the moon, you'll never get there!!

I like the third party support starting to appear for the ST. My favorite
product is the Turbo16 product from FAST TECHNOLOGY. T16 really speeds up
my Mega ST!! It is great!!!
So, lets support the good 3rd party enhancments to the ST and hope that
things will get better IN SPITE OF ATARI!!

Rich (Proud owner of a souped up T16ed Mega ST4!!) Covert