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Re: GDOS, GDOS, GDOS, GDOS ...

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From: Steve Wingard
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1986 01:57
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The GDOS.PRG that Migraph has been sending out with EasyDraw for the
past 7 months is strictly a prerelease version that was debugged enough
to work for EasyDraw.  Migraph was apparently working in an IBM -> ST
cross-development environment (the IBM PC version of GDOS/VDI works fine,
I guess...) and they had to have GDOS to release their program.  Atari
probably saw EasyDraw as a good product that would help sell quite a
few ST's and worked on getting Migraph a version of GDOS that worked
well enough to get EasyDraw out the door.  

Don't get too upset at Neil and the rest of the folks at Atari... 
they seem to be taking the time they need to release a really well-debugged
package for us and sometimes that can take a while... all in all, I
would rather wait than get a GDOS that Atari has to continually fix.  And
when it's really ready, I bet we'll be seeing some really fantastic 
software that takes advantage of all the goodies.

DISCLAIMER:  I don't have any affiliation with Atari (obviously.. look at
the ORG line in the header!) but I think lots of us know what it's like to 
try to kill every bug in a complicated program as people are screaming at you
to RELEASE it...

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Steve Wingard                        ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!ncrcae!wingard
NCR Corp., E&M-Columbia              ...!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!wingard
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From: wingard@ncrcae.UUCP (Steve Wingard)
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Subject: Re: GDOS, GDOS, GDOS, GDOS ...
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Date: Sat, 1-Nov-86 20:57:16 EST
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