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In article <2172@convex.UUCP>, thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
> 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

Atari could do something to make a lot of us happy, and get a huge marketing
advantage with people who love their computers (blush) by announcing right
now that at some specific date in the moderate future the specifications for
TOS 1.8 will be frozen.  All bugs known to Atari as of that date will be
addressed; all new features will have been chosen by then.  After that, it's
up to the programmers.  Sure, people will start getting impatient about 6
months after the drop-dead date, but that's about when the internal alpha
testing should be starting, and that's a nice thing to be able to announce.
Who knows, by having a definite freeze date, the development might even be
helped.
                              Steve J.