Re: Y2K Bugs KA9Q/AmigaDIS (was Re: Happy New Year)

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From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:00

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In demon.ip.support.amiga Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com> wrote:
> In article <19991230.201636.C2984023.1Faa@pierrot.co.uk>, Terrance
> Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.co.uk> writes

>>And those still using the supported[1] AmigaDIS version of KA9Q
>>are presumably up shit creek without a paddle

> I doubt it. I haven't looked at the Amiga source but the actual problems
> in KA9Q were particularly trivial.

The problem is that the few who are probably still using it are
likely not to be techies at all, never mind being able to change
source and recompile :(

>>it may save some people some problems, after all
>>they still have a few hours to read it, connect to the FTP
>>server and get some decent software (which AFAICT is ok...).

> It has long been my understanding that it was no longer the case that
> anyone was prepared to recommend the version that used to be recommended
> and that in fact the number of users had fallen to zero.

Well nobody (here/disa) has recommended AmigaNOS (except for
basic A500/A2000 machines) since ~1995. However...

> Are you saying this is not the case ?

... the last time that Demon changed things in such a way that
parts of AmigaNOS didn't work (the bang path thing just under
2 years ago when the new post software was released) a few
people appeared.

-- 
<URL:http://www.pierrot.co.uk/>                                  Team AMIGA
Winston Churchill: "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats
look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

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From: tez@pierrot.co.uk (Terrance Richard Boyes)
Subject: Re: Y2K Bugs KA9Q/AmigaDIS (was Re: Happy New Year)
Date: 1999/12/31
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