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strasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu ( Colin J. Strasser.) writes:
>In article <1266@cacilj.UUCP> paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close) writes:
>>Oh my, a bug in RTS/CTS handling!  Tsk, tsk.  Forget about the zillions of
>Folks, what we have here is the bane of the consumer -- the "brand loyalist."

Not fair.  I understand Paul - he's tired of someone who never stops
whining, just like I am.  Oh, Richard Covert's knock on the RTS/CTS bug
is not too negative, but he *did* make the comment that Atari should
have gone back and re-done the PROMs.  To do so would be truly stupid.

My point (and as I read it, Paul's point) is that for a small bug like
RTS/CTS, you don't stop delivery and start a new distribution.  Doing
that would do a great disservice to the people who want and need the
majority of the fixes you already have.  It is truly unfortunate that
the bug wasn't found by alpha testing at Atari, but them's the breaks.
It's maybe not good at all that they didn't acknowledge the bug right
away.  But you don't stop everything when you've almost got stuff that
people have been waiting for for two years or more ready to come out
of a three month pipeline.  You have to leave some stuff for the next
release sometimes.

I want those ROMs, and I can work around the RTS/CTS stuff, I suspect.
What I don't wish to do is wait three more months for a different set
of ROMs that fixes one more bug, because the odds are 99.5% that more
bugs will be found in the interim, and we'll be right back again.  If
more bugs are found in the next few months, I *would* like to hear at
that time that another release is planned.

Rob T
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