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Article #30386Re: Changing to / in TOS
From: Allan Pratt
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 20:50
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 20:50
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in article <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) says: > My guess is that while they were introducing hard coded limits > into the OS they managed to see that the user had some alternatives in > MS-DOS and then they eliminated them. I do not consider it a flame against me (The Keeper of GEMDOS and Loremaster) when you slam GEMDOS. The programmer mentioned elsewhere in this newsgroup (since Bruce Holloway didn't mention his name, I won't either) is the culprit, and I have been fixing his code for the last four months. I have put out the worst fires, but I don't ever see this version of GEMDOS matching MS-DOS 3.x... It would take a complete rewrite. Even so, I have killed the 40-folder bug, fixed Malloc, and removed the molasses from the FAT handling code, plus lots of other, more minor fixes. Sorry about teasing you with this stuff, but I don't know how or when it will be released. One good possibility is as a RAM-loaded upgrade (only 32K, not 200K like RAM TOS was). ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Changing to / in TOS Message-ID: <969@atari.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 88 20:50:27 GMT References: <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 24